Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
I do not think this will work, because when the op deleted the /boot partition, the installed kernels and everything except the first stage Grub loader were deleted. The kernel(s) and the rest of Grub can probably be copied from the second install, but the init-<version>.img will have to be rebuilt to use the proper volume group. Then the grub.conf file will have to be edited to change VolGroup01 to VolGroup01. Then doing a grub-install would work. But it would also stop the second installation from booting. You would ether have to change where the first stage gets installed, and the add a chainload entry in the Grubconf on the second drive. Or modify the Grub install on the second FC5 installation, and chainload from the frist install. Mikkel
I missed that portion of the posting content. Since there were two installations, I figured they were intact. The absense of grub in the MBR was my focus.
It is probably possible to boot both installations from the same boot partition and let the root filesystem be referenced to match the particular installation. I think it would be a mess during updates to the kernel though.
I have successfully booted systems by just varying the root reference before. They were the same versions relatively.
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