On Thursday 16 July 2009, stan wrote: >On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:21:46 -0400 > >Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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? > >Too confusing for me. :-) > Yeah, I'm gonna sleep on it. >> 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) > >I've never had a problem just installing to the new boot partition. I >haven't used the device.map file at all. Grub does I think, as a translation table. >The root (hd?,?) tells grub >where to find the new boot partition I want. > >You could probably install to the mbr of dev/sdd but that would be >ignored because it isn't the first drive in the boot sequence. I'll let it on the re-install I plan to do tomorrow. >Better >to choose the boot partition. This is all kind of fuzzy for me, >because I always just choose to install to the new boot partition, sort >of on autopilot, because it works, no thinking required. > >> 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. > >I suspect it must be the option to install the mbr there that populates >it, because it has always been correct when I install. I just point to >it from the master boot partition, and the second menu comes up, >letting me select the kernel I want to boot. I change the fstab on the >new system to let me mount and edit the master boot partition directly. Thanks. Pills & bedtime. -- 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> Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. -- Aleister Crowley -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
