On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 08:23:29AM +0000, Mike wrote:
>
> I guess that I made an error when doing the install by selecting not to
> install grub in rawhide - what I did not want was to overwrite the existing
> grub on the mbr
You _may_ boot few different distributions from the same boot
directory and with the same grub. The catch is that kernel updates
become then a very delicate operation and may need "a manual touchup".
> - but really wanted to install the grub files in /boot
> on the rawhide partition, but leave the mbr alone.
So you are installing grub then not on mbr but on a corresponding
partition. Chainloading that from your "first level" menu
works much nicer.
> One question - can I install grub in the rawhide partition even though I
> cannot currently boot to it? > i.e. can I copy the grub files from the
> F8 /boot directory to the rawhide partition /boot and get it to work?
There is more to a grub installation than just copying files.
OTOH nothing prevents you from installing grub on a given partition
even if it already installed somewhere else. Try
info grub installation 'Installing GRUB natively'
and read what will show up.
Michal
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