Can I Get a FC4T1 Installation Summary?
Tino Meinen
a.t.meinen at chello.nl
Thu Mar 17 06:29:26 UTC 2005
> >>MBR issue: run linux expert at the boot prompt, and when you get into the
> >>install, before you start installing the packages, hit alt+f2 to switch to
> >>the second console. dd if=/dev/hda of=/root/mbr bs=512 count=1 should
> >>save your MBR into /root/mbr. Hit alt+f7 to go back to your install (i'm
> >>assuming you are running graphical install). After all the packages have
> >>been installed and before you reboot, go back into the console, and cat
> >>the saved mbr into /dev/hda.
> >
> >
> > That is great, thanks!
> > So with this I can get my bootprogram in the MBR back the way it was.
> >
> > But now i'm puzzled: how does one get a new bootrecord in the
> > bootpartition so that one can chainload to boot into FC4t1?
> >
> > Tino
> >
> If you are using GRUB from another Linux partition, boot that system,
> mount the partition for FC4T1, open its /etc/grub.conf in an editor and
> insert the appropriate lines from it into the /etc/grub.conf for the
> system that is controlling the MBR.
Alright, I see what you mean: you boot directly into the testpartition
with the grub in the MBR. The corresponding lines in grub.conf can be
found in the test-installation itself, so I have to copy them over into
the grub.conf for the MBR.
The situation I had was this:
When I boot the computer, it will first execute my regular GRUB in de
MBR, then it will chainload to the GRUB in the boot partition of my test
installation. A fairly common situation as I have gathered.
> If this isn't your case, some more explicit description may prompt
> someone to provide a suitable answer.
>
> Hope this helps.
Yes it did, thank you very much!
In future I will be more explicit in my descriptions.
Tino
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