> On 11/25/2011 07:04 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: <> > I.e. I have a "master grub" /boot partition, which chainloads indivdual > "boot" partitions of other OSes. > > I.e. my partitioning basically looks like this: > /dev/sda1 boot (master grub partition, contains only grub). > > /dev/sda<N> OS<N>'s /boot > /dev/sda<N+1> OS<N>'s swap > /dev/sda<N+2> OS<N>'s / > > /dev/sda<M> OS<M>'s /boot > /dev/sda<M+1> OS<M>'s swap > /dev/sda<M+2> OS<M>'s / years back when i started playing with slackware linux, i still had oos installed and used an oos master boot loader. it lasted for a while, but it did not have some of the features of lilo. so, when i added red hat, i changed to lilo. after fedora came out, i changed to grub, when fedora changed. problem was that i had problems getting chain loading to work. being that i had all partitions mounted under each distrib, when i had a kernel upgrade, i pulled the new kernel lines and pasted them into the master grub.conf file. i booted oos from a floppy. ;) my partitioning was similar to what you show, with a swap for each distrib, but only 1 master boot partition. on this system, i have my 'internet' system on primary master with it's own swap and /home partition. primary slave is partitioned for other distribs with master boot as sda1. sda5 is main 'home' partition. see my reply to Tim. -- peace out. tc.hago, g . *please reply "plain text" only. "html text" are deleted* **** 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. ** The installation instructions stated to install Windows 2000 or better. So I installed Linux. ** 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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