[CentOS] Re: VDQ Grub

Mon Jan 22 18:21:14 UTC 2007
Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com>

Jim Wildman spake the following on 1/21/2007 1:09 PM:
> 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 .....
> 
I think the installer will append a number to the named partitions if it
detects  one already exists.
First install will create boot, next install would create a boot1, etc...

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