Redirect Grub or copy new boot

Mark Sargent powderkeg at snow.email.ne.jp
Mon Mar 14 15:10:44 UTC 2005


Mark Sargent wrote:

> Paul Howarth wrote:
>
>> Mark Sargent wrote:
>>
>>> Paul Howarth wrote:
>>>
>>>> Well, we could to and fro with bunch of diagnostics and try to 
>>>> figure out what's gone wrong and how to fix it, but since your FC3 
>>>> install is "new", I'm tempted just to suggest reinstalling FC3 on 
>>>> /dev/hda5 and this time tell it to install grub on the root 
>>>> partition of your Fedora installation (i.e. /dev/hda5).
>>>>
>>>> It should then "just work".
>>>>
>>>> Paul.
>>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> ok, sounds like a tempting thing to me..lol..Paul, anything I should 
>>> be wary of, with doing this.? Can't think of any off hand. Cheers.
>>
>>
>>
>> No, it's not writing to anywhere but /dev/hda5, so it should have no 
>> effect on anything else.
>>
>> Paul.
>>
> Hi All,
>
> ok, already 10mins into it. Cheers again, Paul.
>
> Mark Sargent.
>
Hi All,

ok, when doing the re-install, to hda5, I clicked advanced, and chose 
1st partition of /dev/hda5 for the bootloader, but, it still loads the 
original bootloader for the FC2 installation. What's the workaround for 
this..? Sorry, Paul. Cheers.

Mark Sargent.




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