Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, g wrote: > >> Michael Hennebry wrote: >> >>> What is the magic formula to make this work? >> does fc9's '/boot/grub/device.map' show all drives? > > It did. > >> if not, add. >> >> is fc8 shown in fc9's '/boot/grub/grub.conf'? > > No. > >> if not, mount fc8 partition, copy lines from fc8 grub.conf to fc9 grub.conf. >> >> if 'no joy', post grub.conf. > > Joy. great. > It should have been an obvious thing for me to try. > Somehow I got the impression that the grub.conf partition > had to be on the same drive as the kernel image and > that if it wasn't, chainloading was involved. grub can be confusing. yes '/boot/grub/' can be anywhere, grub's 'boot loader' has to be *installed* on _boot_drive_. 'boot drive' is defined by bios. exception being, if a different 'boot routine' is loaded, it can chain to other drive, and with some, partition. log http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/ and you can pull from a choice of 11 different types of files. > Thanks much. you are welcome. enjoy fc9. it will 'break you in' on kde4. :) -- peace out. tc,hago. g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look at* it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****
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