On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 00:04 +0000, Jim Cornette wrote:
Jim:
Nice setup! I also have multiple distros: FC2, FC3T1, Mandrake10, Win2k, and am glad to see how you chainload the other distros.
Thanks! I was going to try installing lilo on the mbr, then chainload the others that use grub. I forgot so much about grub parameters, so I gave up on that idea.
In my case I have Grub in the MBR which loads the .conf from hdc6. the grub-install command is still pointing to the hda as that is what the machine will boot from, and of course from there, I can chainloader to anywhere I want.
The actually config file for my setup is on /dev/hdb5. I imagine the general concept is pretty similar.
/dev/hdb5 2538 2550 104391 83 Linux -/boot /dev/hdb6 2551 3460 7309543+ 83 Linux -/
When the windows wiped your mbr that is the only one you should have to replace, no?
Windows never touches the mbr on this machine. (no windows partitions)
I used to have to reinstall grub to mbr through the use of either rescue mode or by chroot to the other distributions. I noticed recently that you can choose the edit the grub settings during the anaconda install. Before, I was busy chrooting and rescue disc booting.
Since I have seperate /boot partitions for each distributions. Three distinct grub loaders are there. The trick is in getting them to load and preventing grub in mbr from changing away from the installation in the extended partition.
Jim
-- May you die in bed at 95, shot by a jealous spouse.
