Mike Chambers wrote:
1 - When going to install F11 (again) or rawhide, should either detect my current windows/linux installs and ask to install grub and include those stanzas? (Neither detected the other, maybe still rewrite problems for storage at this stage for this stuff?) 2 - Even if not detected how do I add the missing stanza and is it basically same already ahve just with diff partitions and kernel versions? 3 - Which grub is installed to mbr and is the other installed to the 1st partition of it's install or what? What should the mbr config and the 1st partitions look like? 4 - Should the two installs share /boot dirs so they can read the kernels and auto update grub.conf when needed? How does that work if not?
The way I've always handled "test" installs is to have their installers put GRUB in their partition boot sectors. Then in the primary installation's grub.conf I have stanzas like: title rawhide on sda7 root (hd0,6) chainloader +1 title Test OS on sda8 root (hd0,7) chainloader +1 Booting one of those gets you to a new GRUB with whatever menu the installer put there. This way the main grub.conf doesn't have to be touched when something new gets installed or a kernel gets updated on one of those partitions. The only downside I've found is that preupgrade won't work on one of those chainloaded partitions. Not really a big deal once you realize what the problem is. -- Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines