Couple of things re FC4 & yum

[Paul Howarth]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> This machine is a bit odd in that its actual boot partition isn't even 
> mounted by FC4.  Somehow, in rigging it for dual booting of FC4 and 
> emc's bdi, its now booting from (hd1,0) instead of (hd0,0), so that 
> when a new kernel is installed as was the case this morning, I have 
> to hand modify the /dev/hdb1/grub/menu.lst and copy all the new 
> stuffs from /dev/hda1 to /dev/hdb1, which when its booted to FC4, can 
> be hand mounted as /mnt/bdi-boot.  /dev/hda1 is mounted by FC4 
> as /boot, but thats not where it boots from.

I'd suggest adding an entry:

title Fedora Core 4
         rootnoverify (hd0,1)
         chainloader +1

to /dev/hdb1/grub/menu.lst

You should then be able to pick FC4 from the OS's boot menu, and never 
have to fiddle with grub entries again.

Paul.