On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 11:20 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote: > I now have the /boot part of my whole system. But it would be easy > to make a new partition of say 100 MB the first thing on the second hard > drive. My question is what do I need to do so the new /boot works? I did something similar with a dual-boot system: Windows on the original first drive, all by itself. And Linux installed on an added second drive, all by itself. While setting up GRUB, you define its root (where /boot/ is) with a "root (hd1,0)", then "setup (hd0)" which puts the bootloader onto the first drive MBR, and quit out of the GRUB shell. [root@bigblack ~]# grub grub> root (hd1,0) grub> setup (hd0) grub> quit [root@bigblack ~]# In this scenario, the computer boots, reads the MBR on my first drive, which starts off GRUB from my second drive. I believe that you can even set that up from within the GRUB start up screen. Just hit the right hot key to get into the command line. You can also do it from the rescue disc, so you can get a system working that's not currently booting. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
