[nzlug] When Grub clobbers other grub.conf files

Simon Bridge simonbridge at ihug.co.nz
Fri Dec 14 19:24:55 NZDT 2007


On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 17:22 +1300, Patrick Connolly wrote:

> Looks as though I'm going to have to wipe the Fedora and start again.
> The idea to not use MBR I think is the main take-home message.  I'd
> never tried that before.

'Tis good to use MBR for one of them.
It should be possible to fix this without a reinstall... use grubinstall
to stick grub in the required partition, then edit the main config to
chainload it.

Mind you, I've never actually done this.
There should be a whole bunch of howtos and examples floating around
though, that should show the correct outline.



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