Multibooting with 2 drives
gabriel
normal1.lists at gmail.com
Thu Jan 27 10:02:23 PST 2005
I think you're gonna have to do some sort of chain, Have you looked at
the freebsd handbook? - I believe this has been discussed before here
as well since I had a similar issue. Was trying to dual boot FBSD and
windows on two diff disks.
Cheers!
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:50:40 -0500, Trey Sizemore <trey at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> I have 2 IDE drives laid out as follows:
>
> 1 (master) - 80GB with FreeBSD occupying entire drive
> 2 (slave) - 80GB with 4 linux distros
> hdb1- Fedora Core 3 /
> hdb2 - Fedora Core 3 /home
> hdb3 - swap
> hdb4 - ***EXTENDED PARTITION***
> hdb5 - SUSE 9.2 /
> hdb6 - SUSE 9.2 /home
> hdb7 - Mandrake 10.2 /
> hdb8 - Mandrake 10.2 /home
> hdb9 - Arch 0.7 /
> hdb10 - Arch 0.7 /home
>
> When I installed the Linux distros I chose not to install a boot loader
> for any of them (thinking that a bootmanager like GAG would handle
> this). In retrospect, this may have been a conceptual error as GAG
> would error with "Boot sector not found or corrupt" for these
> partitions. On the advice of someone on the Fedora User's list, I
> booted the Fedora CD in rescue mode and:
> # chroot /mnt/sysimage
> # /sbin/grub-install /dev/hdb1
>
> When I rebooted with GAG and set it to boot Fedora using hdb1, it now
> gives me a 'grub>' prompt.
>
> How can I recover this and get Fedora to boot beyond this? I'm hoping
> luck with this will enable me to do the same for the other Linux
> distros. If there are any other suggestions on this, I'm certainly open
> to them as well.
>
> Thanks.
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