Alternative booting

[Les Mikesell]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>> Tim wrote:
>>  
>>> On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 09:46 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>    
>>>> Grub is bad period! I used a rescue cd and when up I typed grub and 
>>>> it came up after a while and I typed this:
>>>>
>>>> grub> root (hd1,5)       
>>> Your boot partition is the fifth one?  Remember, this "root" is for the
>>> "/boot" partition, not the system "/" root.
>>>
>>>     
>> It could be - I believe the installer defaults to using all logical
>> partitions if there is another OS on the drive.
>>
>> Mikkel
>>   
>    There is nothing but Linux on this computer. That is not the problem. 
> The problem is Grub on F7. It goes through the motions of setting itself 
> up but fails!

It doesn't fail - you just told it to install somewhere that your bios 
isn't loading.  Normally what you want to do for alternate booting is 
install grub in the boot sector of your first hard drive with /boot as 
the 1st partition.  You can install alternate kernels and initrd images 
there and set up a choice of which to load and which partition to set up 
as root - or you can chain-load another boot loader in a different 
partition.

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