Re: booting from DVD image on hard drive partition

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On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, stan wrote:

On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:33:49 -0500 (CDT)
Michael Hennebry <hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Since /boot and / are on disk sdb, I'd like the bootloader there also.
Frustration is bad for my brain.  Ignore my previous request on this
subject. I know how to change the boot hard disk in my BIOS.
What else do I need to do?

You need to install the mbr on sdb.  Then change your BIOS to make it

I've tried to do this before.
The best result was a grub command line on boot.

the first boot disk, and you will boot sdb.
Is it written in TFM somewhere?

F15 still uses legacy grub as default.  So, you can boot a rescue CD
and install grub to the mbr on sdb, or boot onto sda, umount sdb, and
use grub directly on the unmounted disk (I think I've seen this in the

"Use grub" is not all that helpful.  I really need more detail.
TFM has not been my friend.
It's not even clear to me why I would need to unmount the disk.
I expect that unmounting the disk means to unmount all its partitions.

manual). The grub documentation is an info manual, and I find using

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