root partition move

[Rajinder Yadav]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Lennart
Sorensen<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 03:51:13PM -0400, Rajinder Yadav wrote:
>> Is there a how-to on on chaining, would it be found in the GRUB
>> how-to, if there is one? I would like to install fedora 11 when they
>> get their mirror update issues worked out, and want to make sure I am
>> not sharing the /boot partition between different distros.
>
> Well here is an example:
>
> sda1: windows with the windows boot loader
> sda2: linux #1 with root and boot all in one (since generally there isn't a good reason to seperate them)
> sda3: linux #2 with its root and boot all in one
> sda4: extended partition containing all logical partitions for swap, /home, whatever you want
> MBR contains grub for linux #1
> sda3's boot sector contains grub for linux #2
>
> The grub config for linux #1 would then look something like this:
>
> title Windows
> root (hd0,0)
> chainloader +1
>
> title Linux 2.6.26
> root (hd0,1)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686 root=/dev/sda2 ro ...
> initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.26-1-686
>
> title Linux 2.6.26
> root (hd0,1)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686 root=/dev/sda2 ro ...
> initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.26-1-686
>
> title Other GRUB
> root (hd0,2)
> chainloader +1
>
> The two middle ones could then be managed automatically by linux #1,
> while grub for linux #2 can be managed by linux #2.
>
> --
> Len Sorensen
> --

Thanks Len, that seems pretty straight forward....I was going to say
something about monkeys, but I recall what erupted last time ;)

-- 
Kind Regards,
Rajinder Yadav
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