On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 11:23 -0400, av1@ansae.com wrote:
Very sorry, my finger hit "send" too fast and I forgot to type a subject.
I've been able to set up two FC3's with a single grub, but what I'd really like to do is set up a second grub and have the first chainload to the second. (I want to play with custom kernels on the second.)
I have two ide's, hda and hdb. My first fc3 is on hda. I tried installing the second fd3 with /boot on hdb1 and / on hdb2. I told anaconda to put the second grub on the mbr and used the advanced bootloader screen to reorder the drives so it would write it to hdb instead of hda.
After installing, I went to my first grub.conf and added
title Second Fedora rootnoveriy (hd1,0) chainloader +1
But when I reboot and select Second Fedora, I get Error 13 invalid or unsupported executable format. What did I do wrong? What's the right way to set this up?
--Cliff
Cliff:
You need to have a copy of grub in the /boot directory (or / if you didn't make a new /boot).
assuming grub's hd1,0 is = to hdb1 you'll want to boot into your new FC3 and perform grub-install /dev/hdb1
You now won't be able to get to your old install, so you'll have to boot a rescue cd, chroot into your old install, and perform the grub- install to wherever that bootstrap is (/dev/hda is the MRB and the most usual place).
HTH
Scott