rewrite bootloader

[David Balazic]

> Am Mi, den 03.12.2003 schrieb David Balazic um 17:47:
> 
> Corrected top posting ;-) 
soory for that. I blame my MUA :-)

> > > ----------
> > > From: 	Michael Smith[SMTP:operalover_99 at yahoo.com]
> > > Reply To: 	fedora-test-list at redhat.com
> > > Sent: 	3. december 2003 17:23
> > > To: 	fedora-test
> > > Subject: 	rewrite bootloader
> > > 
> > > Dear All,
> > > 
> > > I have several experimental Linux installs, plus one
> > > production install, with a boot floppy for each. The
> > > latest install, of course, puts its own bootloader on
> > > the hard disk (the Fedora 1.0 bootloader was
> > > overwritten by Mandrake 9.2).
> > > 
> > > Now, my problem is that I want to make Fedora 1.0 boot
> > > from the hard disk, but I cannot find the maintenance
> > > tool to rewrite the bootloader in any of the menus.
> > > What am I overlooking? How do I rewrite the
> > > bootloader.
> >
> > run this : grub-install <your boot device>
> > for exmaple : grub-install /dev/hda
> > 
> > Make sure the /etc/grub.conf file has the right contents.
> 
> Just FYI:
> 
> >From 
> # info grub
> Installation/Installing GRUB using grub-install:
> ----
>    *Caution:* This procedure is definitely deprecated, because there
> are several posibilities that your computer can be unbootable. For
> example, most operating systems don't tell GRUB how to map BIOS drives
> to OS devices correctly, GRUB merely "guesses" the mapping. This will
> succeed in most cases, but not always. So GRUB provides you with a
> user-defined map file called "device map", which you must fix, if it is
> wrong.
> ----
> 
> Look at
> # info grub
> Installation/Installing GRUB natively:
> Short form:
> ----
> root (hd0,5)
> setup (hd0)
> ----
> will install grub in mbr of the first harddisk (hd0) an look for its
> config and other grub files on the second logical Partition (hd0,5 --
> presumable /dev/hda6) 
> 
> CU
> thl
> 
> BTW: fedora-test-list is IMHO not the right place for this 
> 
I ran grub-install many times and I never noticed any messages about
deprecation ???


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