Subj : Re: Reqst: How get Fedora to boot
To   : comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
From : Trent Buck
Date : Thu Dec 30 2004 02:57 pm

Up spake Charles Sullivan:
> Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but how would a system boot from
> the MBR of a second drive?  The system is always going to start at
> the MBR of the first drive (unless your BIOS has an option to do
> otherwise).  The bootloader on the first drive should then point
> to the root partition of the OS in question on the second drive.

You are correct.

For example, if you

  - install Mandrake on the first disk (/dev/hda1)
  - install FC on the second disk (/dev/hdb1)

You still need to

  - add /dev/hda1 and /dev/hdb1 to the bootloader menu
  - install the bootloader on, say, the second disk (/dev/hdb)
  - add /dev/hdb to the start of the BIOS boot list

There is no way for the FC installer to perform the last action; you
must do it manually.

-- 
-trent
The light of the eyes is as a comet,
And Zen's activity is as lightning.
The sword that kills the man
Is the sword that saves the man.

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