Tino Meinen wrote:
Can I avoid the MBR issue in advance of the installation? Is YUM a
confirmed problem?
MBR issue: run linux expert at the boot prompt, and when you get into the
install, before you start installing the packages, hit alt+f2 to switch to
the second console. dd if=/dev/hda of=/root/mbr bs=512 count=1 should
save your MBR into /root/mbr. Hit alt+f7 to go back to your install (i'm
assuming you are running graphical install). After all the packages have
been installed and before you reboot, go back into the console, and cat
the saved mbr into /dev/hda.
That is great, thanks!
So with this I can get my bootprogram in the MBR back the way it was.
But now i'm puzzled: how does one get a new bootrecord in the
bootpartition so that one can chainload to boot into FC4t1?
Tino
If you are using GRUB from another Linux partition, boot that system,
mount the partition for FC4T1, open its /etc/grub.conf in an editor and
insert the appropriate lines from it into the /etc/grub.conf for the
system that is controlling the MBR.
If this isn't your case, some more explicit description may prompt
someone to provide a suitable answer.
Hope this helps.
Gerry