Bug report

Harald Hoyer harald at redhat.com
Fri Oct 26 12:11:57 UTC 2007


Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Tim wrote:
> 
>> Karl Larsen
>>>> title Fedora f7-64
>>>>         rootnoverify (hd1,2)
>>>>         makeactive
>>>>         chainloader +1
>> Timothy Murphy:
>>> Isn't this a rather unusual way to run Fedora on the second disk?
>> It gives you the advantage that when you yum update the second OS, it
>> updates its own boot, and you don't have to fiddle around with your
>> first grub.conf file.  Also, you can pull out a drive, and use either
>> one stand-alone.
> 
> I don't really understand your comment,
> but am quite prepared to believe you are right.
> 
> However, this is not the standard or normal way of doing things,
> so I don't think you can say - as Karl does -
> that Fedora 7 doesn't work because of problems arising in this way.
> 
> 
> 
> 

For this to work, the Fedora f7-64 grub bootloader has to be installed on the third partition of the second 
harddisk.




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