borked my grub boot config and can no longer boot my old kernel
Matt
helios82 at optushome.com.au
Sun Feb 22 09:11:13 UTC 2004
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 10:45:40 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote:
<snip>
> You can also use the rescue disk and then select the fedora 1
> installation. If the boot sector is /dev/hda1 or /dev/hdb1 you can
> chainload the other installations from the installation on the /hda11
> and above installations.
>
<snip>
> To get grub to boot from a chainloader with the /dev/hda1 installation,
> I had to boot into the installation that had the boot mount as /dev/hda1
> and run grub-install /dev/hda1 for that installation. I booted into the
> installation that had /dev/hdb1 as the boot partition and ran
> grub-install /dev/hdb1.
<snip>
> The benifit with this method is that each installation has it's own boot
> partition and when updated it updates its independent grub.conf file.
Jim, this method interested me although I'm not totally sure I understand
it. :o) What exactly does grub-install do? And how do the two grub.conf's
work together? I currently chainload Windows 98 but I wasn't aware you
could chainload a second linux grub boot loader.
--
Matt
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