chainloader +1, again

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 02:40:08 -0400, Gene wrote:

> On Wednesday 24 March 2010, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> >On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:13:57 -0400, Gene wrote:
> >> [...] how then do I install grub in /dev/sdb1? Easier to
> >> reinstall, I want /root and /usr both on their own partitions anyway.
> >
> >You can tell the Fedora installer where to store GRUB.
> >
> Well, in this case I did, told it to put it in the mbr of /dev/sdb.

Then chainloading the boot sector of sdb1 doesn't make any sense.
Have you tried chainloading the MBR on sdb, at least?

title Fedora 12
  rootnoverify (hd1)
  chainloader +1
 
> But apparently there is no way to verify that?

Even if you found the word "GRUB" in the MBR, it would need further
checks to verify whether that really is from your F12 install and not
an older one.