grub can't access system

Jim Cornette fct-cornette at insight.rr.com
Tue Sep 20 01:29:21 UTC 2005


Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Sep 19, 2005, Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Once upon a time, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat.com> said:
>>
>>>On Sep 18, 2005, Jim Cornette <fct-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>It is my understanding that the /boot partition has to be on a primary
>>>>partition.
>>>
>>>Nope, not true.  It works just fine as a logical partition.
> 
> 
>>Only if you write GRUB (or some other "smart" boot loader) to the MBR.
> 
> 
> Again, not true.  It works for me on hda5 and hda6, each a /boot for a
> different installation of Fedora, and each one can chain-load the
> other, so both work just fine.
> 

Interesting thing to test out. I'll have to try chainloading the 
installation which I have on an extended partition. I always loaded it 
in MBR because it gave a warning if ever I selected it as the location 
to install grub. Thanks for the lead.

Jim

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