On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 09:50:08 +0530, nix wrote: > hi guys > well i have 2 partitions (hda2,hda5) with 2 redhat flavor 7.2 and 8.0 > respectively (both ext3). when i configure grub making one partition root > then the other partition doesnt boot. it seems that i cannot define 2 root > partitions in my grub. and i cannot use "chainloader" keyword since there is > no bootloader at the start of these partitions. is there any way around, any > command i can use in grub or lilo to do this? > please help. Grub boots from one partition. But has absolutely no problem booting kernels from the others, leave alone passing completely unrelated root= parameter for that kernel. So you keep your grub on one of the partitions and specify it as root. In menu.lst you specify kernels from both these partitions however (use the device syntax... (hd0,4)/boot/vmzinuz ...) and pass these kernels apropriate roots. So you will have: kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 boot ... kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 boot Now, you can boot kernel from one or another partition at will... (you can, of course, type the same commands from grub command-line). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
