Installing FC3 on second hard disk
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Wed Feb 16 14:35:16 UTC 2005
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Stephen Ng wrote:
> I would like to install FC3 on a second hard disk. I understand that
> this is possible with almost all distributions. The question I have is -
> If I want to do this without causing problems with my current
> installation of RedHat 9 and Windows XP on the first (original) drive
> what do I need to do with grub and grub.conf to make sure that after
> installation of FC3 I can still boot into RedHat or Windows XP whenever
> I need to. I would still want grub installed on the original first
> drive, but have it point to FC3 on the second disk so that I can
> optionally boot FC3 or my original RedHat/XP. Booting from floppy or
> other such work around would be messy so I would prefer not to go down
> this route.
>
> I understand that it would be best to create a separate swap and boot
> partition on the second drive, which is fine by me. I have not tried it
> yet so I am guessing that if I start the FC3 install process, somewhere
> down the line when it installs grub, it would simply overwrite my
> current grub configuration. Is this right? If so what will I need to do
> to protect my current grub config? Will simply copying it to a safe
> place, then restoring it after installing FC3 and then manually editing
> it to add the FC3 parameters be the correct thing to do?
>
> And by the way, what will be the correct grub.conf settings to boot from
> the second hard disk?
>
> I would appreciate any help on this question.
When installing FC3, have it install grub in the boot/root partition
instead of the Master Boot Record. Then configure your existing
bootloader on your first hard disk to chain-load the newly-installed FC3
grub.
Which bootloader are you currently using?
Paul.
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