On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:13:27 -0400 Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Greetings all; > > I have added another drive, making 4 sata drives now, and installed a > 64 bit distro on it, but didn't let the installer overwrite my dual > boot setup on /dev/sda1. > > Is it sufficient to add the new drives that aren't actually in the > /boot/grub/device.map how, in their logical order, or must a new > grub-install be done? > If I understand your question, you just have to add a stanza in the menu.lst of the boot partition on /dev/sda1 pointing to the boot partition of the new install. Well, you did install the boot information on a boot partition on the new drive I assume (the installer asks you if you want to do that instead of overwriting the MBR). Here is the stanza I use, but I have seen other people on the list say they use chainloader +1. title Fedora 11 sata 1 boot 1 root (hd2,0) configfile /grub/menu.lst If you don't have a separate boot partition, the second line has to be configfile /boot/grub/menu.lst -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
