Rory Gleeson wrote:
1) When installing FC2 to my primary slave -- hdb -- it put the bootloader on hda, where another OS resides.
If you leave the BIOS set to boot the primary drive, on the primary controller, it should be able to install the boot loader onto hda and install selections to boot the Fedora and the OS that resides on hda.
2) It overwrote the bootloader on hda rather than playing nice with it. So, when I changed my bios back to hda to boot to my other OS, it picked up the FC2 bootloader, locking me out of my hda OS.I believe that the grub information and switching BIOS changes what drives are called. Grub is probebly right for if the bios settings were set to the way that it was during the install.
3) When installing FC2, it doesn't clearly state that it was going to put the bootloader on my other drive. You have to read the hda closely and know what it means.It would be nice for the selection to where to install the bootloader stood out more. I have always installed the bot loader onto the mbr, as anaconda does without editing settings. This makes post-install changes needed to get different OSes to boot as desired. (my case, 3 fedora installations.)
4) It didn't clearly give me the option to put the bootloader on hdb.You might be able to install it onto hdb by running the below command from a root shell.
grub-install /dev/hdb (for installing grub onto the mbr of the drive called hdb)
or
grub-install /dev/hdb1 (to install grub into your boot partition or hdb1 anyway.
5) When I chose "no bootloader" it indicated I'd have to boot from a bootloader floppy, but then didn't clearly give me the option to create that floppy.This is a bad situation! You cannot make boot floppies for the 2.6 kernel. It should lead you to being able to at least install the early stages of the boot loader to a floppy.
6) The FC2 rescue disc didn't provide a clear option to create a bootloader floppy.This sounds like it should install the boot loader to a floppy. I have not tried this myself though.
grub-install /dev/fd0
I installed lilo to boot floppies before. I think that I tried grub to floppy once, but not positive.
Are the above bugzilla worthy??Improvements could be made, as with all things. A request for enhancement might be worthwhile.
Questions:
1) How can I now create that bootloader floppy? I don't mind re-installing FC2 on hdb, if necessary.
Try above, but you no warranties
2) On install to hdb, how I can put the bootloader on hdb?
"info grub-install" might help
All I want to be able to do is change my bios to boot to a different drive and then go in to the OS on that drive. I'm trying to keep the OS's completely separate, using teh bios to flip between them. I don't want to get in relying on mutually-dependent bootloaders.This should be alright for linux and LABEL= drive designations. chainloaded OSes might need to be hand edited to correct (hd0,0) from (hd1,0) or whatever.
Good luck!
Jim
Thanks, Rory
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