[olug] 2nd HD, 2nd OS, GRUB question

Steven Busby steve at busby.com
Wed Mar 30 16:03:34 UTC 2005


It's been my experience that the better installers will leave your existing entries/installations alone.

But if you're not sure, then by all means, manually make the entries in your existing /boot/grub/menu.lst file.

BuzB

----- Original Message -----
From: "Noel Leistad" <noel at metc.net>
To: olug at olug.org
Subject: [olug] 2nd HD, 2nd OS, GRUB question
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 09:49:48 -0600

> 
> Was going to check out CentOS 4.0 (rebuild of RH AS 4.0 from source).
> 
> Main System is FC2 on hda
> Added hdb to hold second OS.
> 
> Installer want to put GRUB on hda (already there, about 8 or 9 entries
> already exist for FC2 kernels)
> 
> Question: Do I let installer install GRUB, add entry by hand? Will grub
> leave existing entries?
> 
> FC2 system is main work system, really don't want to foobar.
> 
> Thoughts, suggestions, step-by-step-hold-my-hand welcome/accepted.
> 
> Grovelling embarrassing, but less demeaning than having to rebuild system.
> 
> 
> Noel Leistad
> noel at metc.net
> 
> 
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