Followup to my anaconda+grub+dual-boot issues

Michael Schwendt fedora at wir-sind-cool.org
Fri May 7 12:28:24 UTC 2004


On Fri, 07 May 2004 12:20:57 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:

> Am Fr, den 07.05.2004 schrieb Matt Hansen um 10:55:
> 
> > So, I installed FC2t3 in a separate partition from FC1 so I can
> > dual-boot them. However, this time I installed FC2t3's grub to the first
> > sector of the boot partition so it wouldn't overwrite the existing
> > bootloader configuration for FC1 et al. Next I set up a chainloader
> > entry in FC1's grub.conf so that when I select that entry the grub
> > screen for FC2t3 is displayed. So, this is all fine, but my question now
> > is how can I get back to the FC1 grub menu once I've jumped to the FC2t3
> > one? During installation of FC2t3, Anaconda realised I had FC1 on
> > another partition and set up a grub entry for it as a chainloaded
> > configuration, but when selected it produces an error 13 I think (forgot
> > to write it down..). Will I have to set up a regular grub stanza for it
> > with root,kernel,initrd? I was hoping to simply chainload it. 
> > 
> > TIA and regards,
> > Matt
> 
> Hi Matt!
> 
> I doubt you can go back once being in the chainloaded FC2t3 grub.

title Go Back To MBR
    root (hd0)
    chainloader +1





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