Re: grub can't access system

[Jim Cornette]

Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>  On Sep 19, 2005, Chris Adams <cmadams(a)hiwaay.net&gt; wrote:
>  
>  
> >Once upon a time, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva(a)redhat.com&gt; said:
> >
> >>On Sep 18, 2005, Jim Cornette <fct-cornette(a)insight.rr.com&gt; 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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