On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 16:25 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > Here is my drive partitions: > ======================== > /dev/sdb - Sata - 750GB drive > [Sizes specified are not exact] > > /dev/sdb1 - boot-sys (100MB) > /dev/sdb2 - boot-f8 (100MB) > /dev/sdb3 - boot-f9 (100MB) > /dev/sdb4 - Extended > /dev/sdb5 - root-f8 (175GB) > /dev/sdb6 - root-f9 (175GB) > /dev/sdb7 - f-App1 (351GB) > /dev/sdb8 - swap (~5GB) > > Ok, I have thus far, set up a new drive with the partitions, finally > figured out how to get the new drive's MBR installed and to use > the boot-sys (/dev/sdb1) file, but apparently, the chain-loaders > could not boot the root-f8 (/dev/sdb5) nor root-f9 (/dev/sdb6) > filesystem. You chainload into the *boot* partition, each boot partition refers to its *root* partition on the kernel load lines. > Do I need to make the [boot-f8 (/dev/sdb2) and boot-f9 (/dev/sdb3) ] > and/or [ root-f8 (/dev/sdb5) and root-f9 (/dev/sdb6) ] filesystems > bootable? You shouldn't need to do that. It's really only the BIOS that goes looking for bootable partitions, to pick which to boot up by default. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.25.11-97.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
