On 1/17/09, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 20:30 +0100, Andras Simon wrote: >> I have F7 (and an unused XP) installed and I'd like to install >> F10 without bothering F7. I have separate partitions for boot, >> root, usr that I left empty for just this purpose when I installed >> F7. From the recent "Grub and two distros" thread I >> understand (or so I hope) that a good method to proceed is to >> have grub installed in the respective Fedora versions' boot partitions, >> and, additionally, in the drive's MBR, which will chainload these. >> >> My first question is: how do I find out whether the present grub >> is installed in the MBR or not. I'm guessing it's not, but how do >> I find out? > Well the machine always boots initially from the MBR. So if your machine > boots and only has Linux on it the main grub boot would start in the > MBR. In order to have the grub boot in another partition you would have > to have another system booting and transferring control to the grub boot > in that sector. XP can do that but since you say XP is not being used > that is not what is happening. > Bottom line your grub is most probably currently in the MBR. But if grub is in the MBR, how can it read grub.conf from /dev/sda2? I'm sorry if my complete lack of understanding shines through... In any case: how do I install the "missing" grubs so that I end up with one in the MBR and one in the /boot partition of each version of Fedora? I assume that the installer will give me one choice (MBR or /boot). Andras -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
