On Saturday 28 October 2006 16:17, George Hare wrote: > Hi All, I am somewhat new to grub and dual booting. I had fc5 86_64 > and was very pleased with it's performance (more likely my ability to > perform on it) so I decided to try dual booting fc5 and fc6 and when I > saw the "chainloader +" come up...I was at a loss. I manned and > searched but everrthing I found was to do with xp. I have 160g and > should (I think) be able to put many distros on thier. Any pointers or > help would be appreciated. > > -- > G. Hare I normally do it like this. FC5 with GRUB instaled in the MBR. FC6 added, and GRUB put in the / partition of FC6. At the end of the FC6 install it reboots, but will bring up FC5's GRUB menu, which up to now doesn't have an entry for FC6. Boot into FC5, open a terminal, su to root, and open a text editor, Gedit, Kwrite, or whatever. Go to /boot/grub.grub.conf . Add an entry as below. title FC6 root (hd0,x) chainloader +1 Change (hd0,x) for the / partition that FC6's GRUB is on. GRUB's naming is different to the normal, hda, hda1, etc. hda is (hd0). hda1 is (hd0,0) . Remember to also include the brackets, and the comma. If your FC6 / partition is on hda4 for instance, you would use (hd0,3) . After adding the lines to /boot/grub/grub.conf, save them, close the editor, exit the shell, and shutdown. Reboot. Grub should now have an entry for FC6. Select this, and you will get FC6's GRUB menu, and can boot FC6 up. Both GRUB, and LiLo can be a bundle of fun until you get used to how they work. The more installs you do, the more practice you get with the bootloaders. Nigel.
