Creating boot section from /boot partitition

[Jaak Simm]

John Hodrien wrote:

>>I'd forget the Windoze boot loader and put GRUB in the MBR, but then I'm
>>clueless on multiboot with M$ in charge.  Provide the info above and
>>perhaps I or someone else can help with one approach or the other.
>>    
>>
>I'd agree 100 percent.  Why bother letting windows know about anything other
>than windows, it's just safer not to...
>  
>
I found out that my fedora2 installation actually did try to put grub 
into MBR. But for some reason it is not there. I also swapped my 
partitions, so /boot is now primary (on /dev/hda4), not extended.
Also tried installing grub myself in "linux rescue" mode by:
grub
root (hd0,3)
setup (hd0)

But still windows boot loader is in charge. It's pretty odd that grub 
cannot re-configure MBR.

I'm concatenating some fdisk info in the end of the mail.

Thanks for the suggestions,
Jaak


fdisk -l

> Disk /dev/hda: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
> 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 158816 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *           1       40641    20482843+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda2           40641      105650    32764567+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
> /dev/hda3          105857      158802    26683965    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/hda4          105651      105853      102312   83  Linux
> /dev/hda5          105857      138736    16571016    b  W95 FAT32
> /dev/hda6          138737      156721     9064408+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda7          156722      158801     1048288+  82  Linux swap
>
> Partition table entries are not in disk order


grub.conf

> # grub.conf generated by anaconda
> #
> # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this 
> file
> # NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
> #          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
> #          root (hd0,3)
> #          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda6
> #          initrd /initrd-version.img
> #boot=/dev/hda
> default=0
> timeout=10
> splashimage=(hd0,3)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> title Fedora Core (2.6.1-1.65)
>     root (hd0,3)
>     kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.1-1.65 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb
>     initrd /initrd-2.6.1-1.65.img
> title Other
>     rootnoverify (hd0,0)
>     chainloader +1


fstab

> LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    
> defaults        1 1
> LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    
> defaults        1 2
> none                    /dev/pts                devpts  
> gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   
> defaults        0 0
> none                    /proc                   proc    
> defaults        0 0
> none                    /sys                    sysfs   
> defaults        0 0
> /dev/hda7               swap                    swap    
> defaults        0 0