On Monday 11 July 2005 12:12, Mike McCarty wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >>On Monday 11 July 2005 11:24, Paul Howarth wrote: >>>Gene Heskett wrote: >>>>This machine is a bit odd in that its actual boot partition isn't >>>>even mounted by FC4. Somehow, in rigging it for dual booting of >>>>FC4 and emc's bdi, its now booting from (hd1,0) instead of >>>>(hd0,0), so that when a new kernel is installed as was the case >>>>this morning, I have to hand modify the /dev/hdb1/grub/menu.lst >>>>and copy all the new stuffs from /dev/hda1 to /dev/hdb1, which >>>>when its booted to FC4, can be hand mounted as /mnt/bdi-boot. >>>>/dev/hda1 is mounted by FC4 as /boot, but thats not where it >>>> boots from. >>> >>>I'd suggest adding an entry: >>> >>>title Fedora Core 4 >>> rootnoverify (hd0,1) >>> chainloader +1 >>> >>>to /dev/hdb1/grub/menu.lst >>> >>>You should then be able to pick FC4 from the OS's boot menu, and >>>never have to fiddle with grub entries again. >>> >>>Paul. >> >>What would this do to the grub choice of boots menu? And shouldn't >>that be (hd0,0) which is the 'other' /boot partition that FC4 would >>normally use if somehow grub hadn't been pointed at hdb? > >It will add a new entry. > Ok, thanks. >if we broke out of the loop, then jump to the place we read > the bootstrap into >else > display an error message about being unable to boot >endif > >What happens from here on out depends on what is installed >in the MBR or Boot Sector. I know what happens from here >on out for DOS machines, but not for others. Anyway, there >is supposed to be an entry in the PT which shows exactly >one partition marked as ACTIVE (some call it BOOT) >on hard discs. Would you believe that both hda and hdb have a star in the boot column when fdisk is handed a p? No? But they do... I would assume that the way back to sanity would be an 'fdisk -mbr /dev/hdb'? > >Mike > -- Cheers Mike, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
