HI Thanks Will get back to you when done.. Later this week.. Marvin On 8/15/10, JB <jb.1234abcd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Marvin Kosmal <mkosmal <at> gmail.com> writes: > >> >> Hi >> >> I want to dual boot FC13 and Sabayon5.3 >> >> I googled and there are thousands of dual boots out there.. >> >> Does Fedora have a simple good one? >> >> TIA >> >> Marvin > Hi, > you are very enigmatic with that "there are thousands of dual boots out > there". > Regardless, I will try to help, if the below is what you mean. > > Let's assume you have a fresh disk. > > You install F13 by formatting the disk accordingly (that is you take some > space > for F13, leave some for other distros/OS's), and install its boot loader > (GRUB) > to MBR, by which it becomes the main boot loader for F13 and other > installations. > > Then, you install your other distro (e.g. Sabayon), but install its boot > loader > to its own root partition (/boot subdirectory). > > Next, you boot F13, sign in as root and modify its GRUB to present you with > a boot menu that includes Sabayon, by whose selection you also boot it). > > Assuming that you partitioned the sda disk like: > /dev/sda1 # F13 root partition, which corresponds to "root (hd0,0)" > /dev/sda2 # Sabayon root partition, which corresponds to "root > (hd0,1)" > > here is an example cut of a dual boot GRUB config file: > > # cat /etc/grub.conf > ... > title Fedora (2.6.33.6-147.2.4.fc13.i686) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.33.6-147.2.4.fc13.i686 ro > root=UUID=4a459357-74f1-4bb2-8924-0a834b58982c rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD > rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc > KEYTABLE=us > noiswmd rhgb quiet > initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.33.6-147.2.4.fc13.i686.img > > title Sabayon > rootnoverify (hd0,1) > chainloader +1 > > JB > > > > > > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
