[nzlug] When Grub clobbers other grub.conf files

[Patrick Connolly]

Any distro I've used has always been very good about recognising the
presence of a Windoze installation.  It sets up grub with an option to
use Windoze as well as the distro just installed.

But they're not very good at recognising other Linux distros.
Debian-type distros I've used seem to be reasonably good at
recognising other similar distros, but Redhat is hopeless.  I
installed Mepis 6.5, Mepis 7 beta, and Fedora 8 - in that order.  So
that meant that Mepis wasn't available until I went back to the live
CD and repaired the System Boot.  Now I can use the two Mepis
versions, but now Fedora is unreachable.

The Fedora DVD doesn't have a live option, so I can't do the
equivalent.  I can mount the partition and look at its boot directory.
Even when compared with the boot directory and quite a lot seems to
have vanished -- at least when compared with one on a working FC6
system.

Is there something that can be used when, say, using a Rescue boot
from the DVD so that Fedora can restablish it how it likes?  Getting
it to look like the one on FC6 looks like a lot of places to get
things wrong, but someone who knows how it all works could probably
create a little script that did all the necessaries.


BTW: has anyone else had the experience with Fedora 8 DVD that won't
install anything unless you run a media check EVERY time you try?
Unless installation follows a media check, Anaconda claims that a
non-existent method has been selected (or words to that effect).  BTW:
it ALWAYS passes the media check.

best

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