Bug report

[Les Mikesell]

Karl Larsen wrote:

>    Hi Les, I just reboot to the SATA hard drive after doing two things. 
> First I found bootable partitions on both drives. The PARTA had the Swap 
> partition /dev/sda1 bootable :-)  and the SATA had the partition with 
> Linux /dev/sda3 bootable. I erased both with fdisk and then rebooted to 
> the SATA using this in grub.conf:
> 
> root (hd1,2)
> chainload
> 
> It booted up exactly like it did with the old grub stuff. So I will now 
> update my grub paper I am still working on. I will upgrade what it takes 
> to boot up another grub. This is without doubt the best way to boot 
> several Linux or windows systems with grub.

Which old grub stuff?  Do you mean the chainloaded drive is still 
recognized as /dev/sdf (or whatever it was when you didn't chainload 
boot) if you omit the 'makeactive'?

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  Les Mikesell
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