Hi. I recently bought a 40 GB Maxtor and loaded Fedora onto the first 20 GB, leaving 20 GB free. Fedora was working O.K. so I loaded Debian Sarge onto the free 20 GB. During the Debian install Grub wanted to know where to be put (out of 3 options) and I chose the MBR. I was hoping it wouldn't happen but of course it did, it overwrote the Fedora bootloader. I don't want to know how to fix this, just how does one make the install work for two distros.
Many thanks.
Karoo
I have both on the same system along with WinXP. All on the same drive. I used the same /boot and /swap (both on separate partitions) for both Fedora and Debian. This works because the kernel names used by Debian and Fedora are distinct.
In your case, I guess you need a grub entry that will point to Fedora. What I would do is, boot into Debian, then mount the other distro's partition (/boot, if it is on a separate partition), copy the relevant part of /boot/grub/menu.lst and copy that into the current (debian's) /boot/grub/menu.lst. Upon next reboot, you will see the new entry too. now, if you had separate /boot parititions for both distros, you could have used only one common /boot.
Perhaps, others may be able to help you with a more efficient method.
GL, ->HS
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
