GRUB Question

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Tue Oct 16 19:31:35 UTC 2007


John Pierce wrote:
> Probably the wrong list, but here goes.
>
> I have this working version of fedora 7 on sda, I installed mandriva
> 2008, for a test drive for the wife, on sdb.  There was not an option
> to omit installing the boot loader, I let it install it on  sdb.  The
> question, can I make the grub on sda pass control to the grub on sdb?
> If so, how?
>
> I know how to boot the beta of fedora 8 that I put on that drive, but
> I cannot figure out how to pass control to the sdb boot loader.
>
> Any thoughts, suggestions or ideas are greatly appreciated.
>
>   
    Well first read man grub or info grub on your F7 working computer. 
Learn how to write a section on your existing grub.conf in /boot/grub/ 
that will boot your F8. It is like the ones you have now but with 
different root and boot. You can get the right stuff from the F8 grub.conf.



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