GRUB Question

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Wed Oct 17 00:12:53 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.
> 
It's trivial: I don't have one set up at present, but it's like this 
stanza booting Windows:
title Windows XP Professional
     rootnoverify (hd0,0)
     chainloader (hd0,0)+1

I'll leave it to you to translate;-)


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