On Wednesday 09 December 2009, Bill Davidsen wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greets; >> >> 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? > >If you don't get an answer sooner, when I go to the part of the building > where my laptop sits I'll check the stanza I used, as it still has a > fallback fc10 present. In the meantime, you can try booting off sdb, using > (typically) the F12 key to enter the boot manager. I suspect the boot info > is in the MBR of sdb. > Well, according to the files present on /dev/sdb1, grub is installed. I tried the chainloader+1, didn't work, now I'm about to reboot and try the map syntax to swap the bios drive orders. Thanks Bill. -- 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> "You are WRONG, you ol' brass-breasted fascist poop!" -- Bloom County -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
