[nzlug] When Grub clobbers other grub.conf files

[Patrick Connolly]

Somewhere about Fri, 14-Dec-2007 at 07:24PM +1300 (give or take),
Simon Bridge wrote:

|> 
|> 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.

Well, yes.  There's one there that boots 3 OSs already.  Don't want to
muck with that now that I'm smarter.  I reinstalled Fedora and had it
use the boot partition instead of MBR.  Rebooting to Mepis, I could
mount that partition, copy the grub.conf entry into the one which
Mepis uses, and lo: I could now use Fedora.  Well, sort of.  There's
still something seriously screwy.  I didn't reformat the /home
partition and somehow it's kept something that puts sand in the works.
I won't bore with the details.

I'd be interested to know if anyone else has had the bizarre (IMHO)
experience of an install DVD refusing to recognising the method if it
hasn't been through the check media routine before it starts.  I can't
see any logic in it, but if nobody else has had that experience
(meaning only my DVD does it), there's a different type of logic-lack
happening.  Can a media check actually miss something wrong with the
media?


|> 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.

Can I run that from booting into Rescue mode?  In any case, I'd
already given up on it and got over that problem simply enough, even
if it was rather long-winded (and maybe created another).  I'll play
with it some more when I get time.  Meantime, I'll go back to using
Mepis.  Seems to be a lot less hassle.

BTW: Does anyone still use newsgroups theses days?  I see there are
still plenty of them, but none have 'fedora' in their name (at least
with Slingshot's selection).  Judging by how many of them have no new
posts, I get the impression usenet's going the way of gopher.

best

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