[Klug-general] Dover Meeting

[Mike Evans]

Dan,

I hit this problem with my laptop at some point.  The problem is there 
are two options when you install a distro:

1:  Install grub (or lilo)
2:  Don't install

When I put fedora 8 on my laptop (alongside Ubuntu and another operating 
system) I thought "right, no need to do the grub install - I'll just 
stick with the Ubuntu install in the MBR, which points to Grub on the 
boot partition, and I'll add the grub lines for Ubuntu into that."  WEll 
the trouble is that if you say "Don't install" it doesn't write the 
grub.conf file either, so you don't know what the lines to add to the 
other config file should be.

What I ended up having to do was let fedora install, and re-write the 
MBR to point to its copy of Grub.  Then I started grub at the command 
line and re-installed it on the MBR to point to the Ubuntu boot 
partition, and then finally edited the grub.conf in the boot partition 
to include the lines from the fedora grub.conf.

The main thing to watch out for is that when you are telling grub which 
partition to boot from it has a different numbering scheme from the way 
that disks/partitions are numbered on the filesystem. for example sda1 
is hd0,0 and sda2 is hd0,1  The commands you want are something like:

root(hd0,X)
setup(hd0)
quit

were X in my case was 1 - for the Ubuntu /boot partition.  If it would 
help the next time I have the laptop on I'll send you my grub.conf

Regards,
Mike

Dan Attwood wrote:
> well for fedora see discussion point 2
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