Bug report

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Fri Oct 26 12:37:52 UTC 2007


Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On 26/10/2007, Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
>   
>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>
>>     
>>>> title Fedora f7-64
>>>>         rootnoverify (hd1,2)
>>>>         makeactive
>>>>         chainloader +1
>>>>         
>> Isn't this a rather unusual way to run Fedora on the second disk?
>>     
>
> No. Chain-loading of boot loaders is a pretty ordinary multi-boot
> scenario. You let OS #1 maintain the MBR. And any additional OS
> maintains its own bootloader in the first sector of its own boot
> partition. No shared /boot for all installations.
>
> Why Karl uses "makeactive" and "rootnoverify" instead of "root" is a
> mystery though. What is the reason not to verify here?
>
>   
    I did it this way because it was the way it is done in the grub info 
pages. If you think another way is better I am willing to try it.



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