On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 10:45:40 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote: <snip> > You can also use the rescue disk and then select the fedora 1 > installation. If the boot sector is /dev/hda1 or /dev/hdb1 you can > chainload the other installations from the installation on the /hda11 > and above installations. > <snip> > To get grub to boot from a chainloader with the /dev/hda1 installation, > I had to boot into the installation that had the boot mount as /dev/hda1 > and run grub-install /dev/hda1 for that installation. I booted into the > installation that had /dev/hdb1 as the boot partition and ran > grub-install /dev/hdb1. <snip> > The benifit with this method is that each installation has it's own boot > partition and when updated it updates its independent grub.conf file. Jim, this method interested me although I'm not totally sure I understand it. :o) What exactly does grub-install do? And how do the two grub.conf's work together? I currently chainload Windows 98 but I wasn't aware you could chainload a second linux grub boot loader. -- Matt
