Bug report
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Fri Oct 26 12:37:52 UTC 2007
Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On 26/10/2007, Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
>
>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> title Fedora f7-64
>>>> rootnoverify (hd1,2)
>>>> makeactive
>>>> chainloader +1
>>>>
>> Isn't this a rather unusual way to run Fedora on the second disk?
>>
>
> No. Chain-loading of boot loaders is a pretty ordinary multi-boot
> scenario. You let OS #1 maintain the MBR. And any additional OS
> maintains its own bootloader in the first sector of its own boot
> partition. No shared /boot for all installations.
>
> Why Karl uses "makeactive" and "rootnoverify" instead of "root" is a
> mystery though. What is the reason not to verify here?
>
>
I did it this way because it was the way it is done in the grub info
pages. If you think another way is better I am willing to try it.
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