Dual booting w/fc5 and fc6
Nigel Henry
cave.dnb at tiscali.fr
Sat Oct 28 15:28:52 UTC 2006
On Saturday 28 October 2006 16:17, George Hare wrote:
> Hi All, I am somewhat new to grub and dual booting. I had fc5 86_64
> and was very pleased with it's performance (more likely my ability to
> perform on it) so I decided to try dual booting fc5 and fc6 and when I
> saw the "chainloader +" come up...I was at a loss. I manned and
> searched but everrthing I found was to do with xp. I have 160g and
> should (I think) be able to put many distros on thier. Any pointers or
> help would be appreciated.
>
> --
> G. Hare
I normally do it like this. FC5 with GRUB instaled in the MBR. FC6 added, and
GRUB put in the / partition of FC6. At the end of the FC6 install it
reboots, but will bring up FC5's GRUB menu, which up to now doesn't have an
entry for FC6. Boot into FC5, open a terminal, su to root, and open a text
editor, Gedit, Kwrite, or whatever. Go to /boot/grub.grub.conf . Add an entry
as below.
title FC6
root (hd0,x)
chainloader +1
Change (hd0,x) for the / partition that FC6's GRUB is on.
GRUB's naming is different to the normal, hda, hda1, etc. hda is (hd0). hda1
is (hd0,0) . Remember to also include the brackets, and the comma. If your
FC6 / partition is on hda4 for instance, you would use (hd0,3) .
After adding the lines to /boot/grub/grub.conf, save them, close the editor,
exit the shell, and shutdown. Reboot. Grub should now have an entry for FC6.
Select this, and you will get FC6's GRUB menu, and can boot FC6 up.
Both GRUB, and LiLo can be a bundle of fun until you get used to how they
work. The more installs you do, the more practice you get with the
bootloaders.
Nigel.
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