[CentOS] VDQ Grub

Sun Jan 21 21:09:21 UTC 2007
Jim Wildman <jim at rossberry.com>

On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Theo Band wrote:

> Just look in the /boot/grub directory. You'll find a file called grub.conf. 
> Probably this only contains one option for the OS installed last. If a file 
> called grub.conf.bak exists as well, copy the lines from there. The /boot 
> folder probably contains the images for both FC6 and Centos.
>
> This works if you choose the same boot partition for boot installations (a 
> small 100MB dedicated /boot partition is more than enough) and if you use the 
> /boot partition without clearing when you do the second installation.
>
> Please note that the paths in grub.conf are relative to /boot, not to /
>
> Good luck.

You will probably have to fix the "LABEL=/usr" syntax with explicit device
names as well in /etc/fstab for each OS.

ie 
/dev/hda1 /boot .....
instead of
LABEL=/boot /boot .....

since both drives will have a partition labeled /boot.
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