On Wednesday 15 July 2009, stan wrote: >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. I have tried to do that and failed, but after I gave up and booted back to F10, I found that diskdrake did not actually use the /dev/sdd3 and up partitions that I told it to, translating /dev/sdd2 into the extended partition, and then continueing the sequence not at /sss/dev/sdd3, but at /dev/sdd5, so the last one is /dev/sdd10, but its actually the 8th partition. Confuuzzin ain't it? >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). No, I didn't let it install the boot loader at all. However I've found, from the /dev/sdd10/etc/fdisk, that it also left out a partition I need, so I'll reinstall again tomorrow & see if I can 'get it right'. Can I let it install to the mbr of /dev/sdd without confusing the one on /dev/sda? I have added the two newer drives to /dev/sda1/grub/device.map now, and I'm hoping that will be sufficient for grub to find the new boot files (once they are installed that is) >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 Which I may have to build, all I got from the install was an obviously wrong /boot/grub/menu.lst-example. And yes the new drive does have a /boot partition (as does the current F10 install) where all the normal files live. But that new /boot/grub, on /dev/sdd1 is, except for the menu.lst-example, is otherwise empty. Many Thanks for the prompt response. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
