On Sat June 4 2005 10:45 pm, Jonathan Berry wrote: > Hi Claude, > ......................snip.........section on partitioning I'm going to be installing to a third drive, so no fancy partitioning required > When you come to installing the boot-loader, install it to the boot > partition instead of the MBR of the disk. We'll let the FC3 GRUB > chainload to the other distros, just like it does with Windows (or > pick your favorite to be primary, you'll just have to reinstall FC3 > GRUB to its boot partition then). This will let each distro manage > its own boot-loader. Then just add entries to the FC3 /etc/grub.conf > like: > > title Fedora Core 4 > rootnoverify (hd1,3) > chainloader +1 > > The (hd1,3) should be changed to match the disk and partition where > FC4 is installed. You can do the same thing with Mepis or whatever > else. This is the clearest I've seen it described anywhere, and it makes perfect sense - thank you. I do have a question or two - I post the relevant section of my grub.conf: title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.27_FC3) root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.27_FC3 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 #rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.img title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.20_FC3) root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.20_FC3 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.20_FC3.img title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.14_FC3) root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.14_FC3 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.14_FC3.img title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667) root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img title XP rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 As you can see, there's a bit more data in each entry than what you suggested, above. Apart from putting in the right hd/partition info, do I need the kernel line, and the initrd line for each of the new distro entries? ....................snip,..........caveat emptors on sharing partitions I intend to keep this simple, so I don't intend to share anything for now. -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA
