F8T3 fails to detect my existing F7 install

[Keith Roberts]

On Sun, 7 Oct 2007, Neal Becker wrote:

> To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
> From: Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com>
> Subject: F8T3 fails to detect my existing F7 install
> 
> This is my current (F7) grub.conf.  You'll notice root is 
> set to (hd1,1), which is /dev/sdb2, labeled /boot1.
>
> If I try to install F8T3, it doesn't offer to add this to 
> grub.  In fact, I don't see any way to install F8T3 and 
> still be able to boot F7.

I have the same problem on my laptop. I'm installing F8t3 to 
a new root partition, without overwritting my FC6 
installation root partition.

My workaround is to mount the FC6 root partition, that 
contains the /boot/grub directory. (It's not a seperate boot 
partition)

Then copy and paste the entries from the FC6 
/boot/grub.grub.conf file, to the new F8t3 
/boot/grub/grub.conf file. That way I can choose between 
booting the F8t3 installation, or fallback to the current 
stable FC6 installation which is working fine.

HTH

Keith Roberts

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