On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 19:18 -0500, ne... wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 13:56:13 -0600, Shashank Bhide <bhides@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > When I install the second copy, should I install the boot loader on > > the MBR or on the first sector of the /boot hard-drive (/dev/hda3)? > No. No. Do not install a bootloader, use the current copy of grub. > See below for an extract of my grub.conf: > > title Fedora Core (2.6.10-1.737_FC3) > root (hd2,0) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.737_FC3 ro root=LABEL=/ vga=795 noprobe > initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.10-1.737_FC3.img > title FC3 64bit > root (hd1,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/sdb1 vga=795 noprobe > initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img > > I amended the second grub stanza so it would mimic an install in a > single partition. The problem with doing it this way is that you'll need to manually edit the grub.conf file every time you upgrade the kernel in the second Fedora installation (which will be quite often at the current rate of turnover of kernels). The way I'd do it would be to install grub on /dev/hda3 as you originally suggested and then add an entry to the original grub menu to chain-load the second copy of grub: title Second Fedora Installation rootnoverify (hd0,2) chainloader +1 This will give you a menu item on your regular grub screen to load the second installation's version of grub, so there's an extra layer of menu to go through when you want to run the second installation. However, both installations will now happily maintain their own grub.conf files when kernel upgrades are done and no further manual edits will be needed. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
