Re: Dual Boot

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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
>
>
>
>
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