Bug report

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Fri Oct 26 12:34:56 UTC 2007


Harald Hoyer wrote:
> Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> For this to work, the Fedora f7-64 grub bootloader has to be installed 
> on the third partition of the second harddisk.
>
    Very good. That is my conclusion too since it works fine.



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