On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 11:23 -0400, av1@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Very sorry, my finger hit "send" too fast and I forgot to type a subject. > > I've been able to set up two FC3's with a single grub, but what I'd really > like to do is set up a second grub and have the first chainload to the > second. (I want to play with custom kernels on the second.) > > I have two ide's, hda and hdb. My first fc3 is on hda. I tried installing > the second fd3 with /boot on hdb1 and / on hdb2. I told anaconda to put the > second grub on the mbr and used the advanced bootloader screen to reorder > the drives so it would write it to hdb instead of hda. > > After installing, I went to my first grub.conf and added > > title Second Fedora > rootnoveriy (hd1,0) > chainloader +1 > > But when I reboot and select Second Fedora, I get Error 13 invalid or > unsupported executable format. What did I do wrong? What's the right way to > set this up? > > --Cliff > Cliff: You need to have a copy of grub in the /boot directory (or / if you didn't make a new /boot). assuming grub's hd1,0 is = to hdb1 you'll want to boot into your new FC3 and perform grub-install /dev/hdb1 You now won't be able to get to your old install, so you'll have to boot a rescue cd, chroot into your old install, and perform the grub- install to wherever that bootstrap is (/dev/hda is the MRB and the most usual place). HTH Scott
