F8 install failure at xinit

[Karl Larsen]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
>   
>> On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 00:00 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>     
>>> I just found a newer bios for my now elderly Biostar M7NCD Pro mobo, and will 
>>> put that in first & then try it tomorrow when the old fart is a little 
>>> fresher.  Hopefully that will make an offboard /boot partition possible.
>>>       
>> where the /boot partition is located should be of little consequence
>> because the bootloader code needs to be on the first drive's mbr and
>> grub can locate a /boot partition in any drive at that point.
>>
>>     
> Because Grub uses the BIOS to access the drive, the boot partition
> needs to be on a drive the BIOS can access, and located on the part
> of the drive the BIOS can access. This may not be the entire drive,
> depending on the BIOS. Originally, BIOS limits were the reason for a
> separate /boot partition. There can be other reasons to use one now.
>
> Because Gene has another Linux installation, he may want a second
> copy of the boot loader on the new drive, and chainload to it from
> the original Grub installation.
>
> Mikkel
>   
    I have my main Grub still on F7. It is about time to change that so 
F8 has the main grub. I have been chainloading F8 since I installed it. 
Now I will chainload F7 after I get F8 running.

     The chainload of another Grub is very nice. It makes every version 
totally independent.


Karl
 

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