GRUB Question

[Aaron Konstam]

On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 15:54 -0400, Michael Wiktowy wrote:
> On 10/16/07, John Pierce <john.j35 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Probably the wrong list, but here goes.
> >
> > I have this working version of fedora 7 on sda, I installed mandriva
> > 2008, for a test drive for the wife, on sdb.  There was not an
> option
> > to omit installing the boot loader, I let it install it on  sdb.
> The
> > question, can I make the grub on sda pass control to the grub on
> sdb?
> > If so, how?

> > I know how to boot the beta of fedora 8 that I put on that drive,
> but
> > I cannot figure out how to pass control to the sdb boot loader.
> >
> > Any thoughts, suggestions or ideas are greatly appreciated.
> 
> If you installed your mandriva bootloader on the MBR of sdb that
> points to a /boot partition on sdb#, you can just add a stanza in your
> Fedora 7 grub.conf on sda to chainload sdb ... just treat your other
> grub like you would a Windows partition (without all the crazy BIOS
> drive order swapping and partition hiding needed). 

The solution above should work but another cleaner solution would seem
to me to be add a stanza for the sdb system to the grub,conf on sda.
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