Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
The problem is that the Grub first stage that is installed on the MBR is looking for the Grub stage 1.5 in a specific place on the drive. Because the first stage is very small, it does not know about file systems. This is what the stage 1.5 does. So it is ignoring the new stage 1.5, and is using the old one. That one is looking at the original /boot/grub directory.Is a distro independent grub boot possible using a boot partition??? Hello, I'm trying to set up a boot partition on my multi-boot laptop using grub. But I must be doing something wrong. And I'm not sure if it can do what I really want anyway... I was hoping that if I properly set up a boot partition with grub, it would still work if I replaced the distro with which I originally installed grub to the mbr??? I set up a boot partition (sort of) I copied mepis' /boot to it, modified both menu.lst files to replace lines consisting of: root (hd0,6) [ the mepis partition ] with lines containing: root (hd0,2) [ the intended boot partition ]
You might want to consider creating a small partition just for Grub. The menu in this version would just chainload the boot loader for the other versions, or Windows, depending on what you pick from the menu. You would then install Grub for each distribution to the boot record of its /boot partition, if it has one, or its root partition if it does not.I know it's using the vmlinuz from (hd0,2) because I temporarily renamed the one I had for the kubuntu in the mepis /boot dir and could still boot kubuntu... I also know I'm still using the menu.lst file on (hd0,6) because I modified one of the title lines to include the words "native /boot" And that was displayed in the boot menu. I suspect that to make grub use the menu.lst that's on (hd0,2) what I need to do is to mount /dev/hda3 on /boot while running the mepis that installed grub, and then do a "grub-install /dev/hda". But I'd like to confirm that before I wing it because unlike my old pc there is no floppy so I can't test it with "grub-install /dev/fd0" first. So I guess I'm asking if that's all there is to it? But what I really want to know is once the grub installed to the mbr is booting from (hd0,2) using the menu.lst from that partition, will it continue to boot from the mbr if the linux that installed it to the mbr is no longer there? Or will I always have to reinstall grub to the mbr from some other installed linux before I trash the distro that last installed it???
For a quick fix, you can mount the new /boot partition using /bot as the mount poing, and run grub-install. You can then get rid of the mepis install if you want, as long as you do not get rid of your new /boot partition.
Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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