Can GRUB boot GRUB?

[Robert Nichols]

Iain Stephen wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 12:18 -0600, Justin Willmert wrote:
> 
>>You should be able to just chain load the Debian installation much like 
>>you would the Windows installation. Just give Debian the hda0 path 
>>rather than sdaX.
>>Take my comments as a grain of salt though. I am by NO means an advanced 
>>user in GRUB. I'm just telling you that I don't see much of a difference 
>>between the chain loading situations.
> 
> 
> That's what I thought too, but I can't get it to work. If I remember
> correctly Debian starts booting but tries to use the FC4 filesystem on
> sda and I get a kernel panic, or various GRUB errors depending on what
> I've tried in menu.lst.

I've done that with FC3 and FC4 and had no problem at all.
Just be sure that Debian's grub.conf and /etc/fstab reference
the right partitions.  In grub.conf check both the "root ..."
line and the "root=..." kernel parameter.  If you're using
"LABEL=..." to identify partitions, make sure all your
partitions have unique labels.

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