Bug report

Timothy Murphy tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Fri Oct 26 12:06:07 UTC 2007


Tim wrote:

> Karl Larsen
>>> title Fedora f7-64
>>>         rootnoverify (hd1,2)
>>>         makeactive
>>>         chainloader +1
> 
> Timothy Murphy:
>> Isn't this a rather unusual way to run Fedora on the second disk?
> 
> It gives you the advantage that when you yum update the second OS, it
> updates its own boot, and you don't have to fiddle around with your
> first grub.conf file.  Also, you can pull out a drive, and use either
> one stand-alone.

I don't really understand your comment,
but am quite prepared to believe you are right.

However, this is not the standard or normal way of doing things,
so I don't think you can say - as Karl does -
that Fedora 7 doesn't work because of problems arising in this way.







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