Multi boot with Fedora, XP, and second Linux distro

[Claude Jones]

On Sat June 4 2005 10:45 pm, Jonathan Berry wrote:
> Hi Claude,
>
......................snip.........section on partitioning
I'm going to be installing to a third drive, so no fancy partitioning required

> When you come to installing the boot-loader, install it to the boot
> partition instead of the MBR of the disk.  We'll let the FC3 GRUB
> chainload to the other distros, just like it does with Windows (or
> pick your favorite to be primary, you'll just have to reinstall FC3
> GRUB to its boot partition then).  This will let each distro manage
> its own boot-loader.  Then just add entries to the FC3 /etc/grub.conf
> like:
>
> title Fedora Core 4
> rootnoverify (hd1,3)
> chainloader +1
>
> The (hd1,3) should be changed to match the disk and partition where
> FC4 is installed.  You can do the same thing with Mepis or whatever
> else.

This is the clearest I've seen it described anywhere, and it makes perfect 
sense - thank you. I do have a question or two - I post the relevant section 
of my grub.conf:

title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.27_FC3)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.27_FC3 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 #rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.20_FC3)
	root (hd1,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.20_FC3 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
	initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.20_FC3.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.14_FC3)
	root (hd1,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.14_FC3 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
	initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.14_FC3.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667)
	root (hd1,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
	initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
title XP
	rootnoverify (hd0,0)
	chainloader +1

As you can see, there's a bit more data in each entry than what you suggested, 
above. Apart from putting in the right hd/partition info, do I need the 
kernel line, and the initrd line for each of the new distro entries?

....................snip,..........caveat emptors on sharing partitions
I intend to keep this simple, so I don't intend to share anything for now. 

-- 
Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA