GRUB Question

[John Summerfield]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Michael Wiktowy wrote:
>> On 10/16/07, John Pierce <john.j35 at gmail.com> 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.
>> If you installed your mandriva bootloader on the MBR of sdb that
>> points to a /boot partition on sdb#, you can just add a stanza in your
>> Fedora 7 grub.conf on sda to chainload sdb ... just treat your other
>> grub like you would a Windows partition (without all the crazy BIOS
>> drive order swapping and partition hiding needed).
>>
> How do you chainload to the MBR? If you specify hd0,0, it looks for
> the boot loader in the boot record of the first partition, and not
> the MBR. You can get around that by installing grub stage 1 on the

Don't want a partition? Don't specifiy one.
(hd0)

Depending on build options, these may work too:
(cd)
(nb)



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