> Resend as there has been no reply, with added info. > > I finally said to hell with it and let F12 install itself on /dev/sdb > with all its defaults. > > I was surprised on the reboot when my usual grub menu from > /dev/sda was all that showed up, no mention of an F12 install at all. > > Added: I had it install everything in the options list, but gave it only > /dev/sdb to play with in the available disks menu's, & use the defaults on > /dev/sdb, so it made a 100 meg /boot, using ext4, and a logical volume out > of the rest of the drive. I have NDI how to query the filesystem used there, > other than trying to mount /dev/sdb1 as ext3 fails. > > So, since I had blown away a centos install to put F12 on /dev/sdb, I > carved up a fresh grub stanza that reads like this and added it to > /dev/sda1/grub/grub.conf: > > # grub.conf generated by anaconda > # > # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file > # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that > # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. > # root (hd0,0) > # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sdb3 > # initrd /initrd-version.img > #boot=/dev/sda > default=19 > fallback=1 > timeout=15 > splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > > [...] > > #21 new stanza > title Fedora 12 (2.6.31.6-162.fc12.x86_64 from dev/sdb) > root (hd1,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31.6-162.fc12.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_coyote- > lv_root LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc > KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet > initrd /initramfs-2.6.31.6-162.fc12.x86_64.img > > which is in fact pasted from the /dev/sdb1/grub/grub.conf except for the > initial "root (hd1,0)" statement. > > So it looks as if I might have to 'chainloader +1 ' it instead, so how > do I do that? I've never done that before. > > Also, that /dev/sdb1 partition only mounts as ext4 if that is important. > > Added: I experimentally added a 'chainloader+1' as the next line after the > root (hd1,0) in the /dev/sda1/grub/grub.conf, but all that seemed to do was > add another 10 second delay before I get the error 13 message. I would have > thought from what little I know about grub, that this should force a reload, > effectively a grub restart, from the mbr of /dev/sdb. Is there something I > need to change in the /dev/sdb1/grub/grub.conf also? Chainloading will not work because F12 defaults to grub1, which cannot boot from an ext4 /boot. Your F12 stanza looks OK (I have never used so many options but why not?). Is your /boot/grub/device.map on /dev/sda associating (hd1) to /dev/sdb? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
