On Monday 20 February 2006 14:37, Billy Tallis wrote: > On 2/20/06, Iain Stephen <i.stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 12:18 -0600, Justin Willmert wrote: > > > You should be able to just chain load the Debian installation much like > > > you would the Windows installation. Just give Debian the hda0 path > > > rather than sdaX. > > > Take my comments as a grain of salt though. I am by NO means an > > > advanced user in GRUB. I'm just telling you that I don't see much of a > > > difference between the chain loading situations. > > > > That's what I thought too, but I can't get it to work. If I remember > > correctly Debian starts booting but tries to use the FC4 filesystem on > > sda and I get a kernel panic, or various GRUB errors depending on what > > I've tried in menu.lst. > > If you truly have grub installed in the MBR of both drives and > pointing to different stage2 files, (ie if you installed one while the > other was not plugged in) than you can chainload one grub from the > other. If the bios loads grub on (hd0) then you would say "chainloader > (hd1)+1" and boot into the other grub. From there, you just need to > make sure that the kernel command line points to the right rootfs. > > The chainloader is what you use for anything that would otherwise boot > itself, including DOS, Windows, and other bootloaders. At this point I have also had problems with labeling of partitions. Are the unique or unlabeled? -- Some people have convictions. Some people have opinions I think I'll have a cheeseburger!
