> -----Original Message----- > From: Heschi Kreinick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 10:26 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Create a new grub only partition? Looking for > ideas. > > > Guess I should have reread the thread--I assumed you were going > for tomsrtbt > for a reason. Yeah, the liveCD will work fine for what you want. I'm on my > way out right now, so I can't go into too much detail, but my suggestion > would be to create a GRUB boot floppy (instructions on this are available > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml#doc_chap2 but that's > for making > a netboot image; ignore the part about tulip and just do listing > 2.4). Make > your best guesses for a grub.conf, write it to the floppy, then > boot off it. > One of the nice things about GRUB is you can edit its config on > the fly (use > the e key), so if you didn't get your config file right you can > play around > with it. (It doesn't actually save to the disk, though..) Once you have a > working grub.conf that can boot all your OS's, you should be able to just > choose a GRUB root partition, write it to the MBR, and go. In the > meantime, > you aren't messing with your HD, and so you won't be breaking anything. > -Heschi > Heschi, I think this may work out OK. We'll see. I never erased the original Gentoo kernel, so I presume that it is still under /boot on /dev/hda8. Presumably I can make a grub.conf file on this floppy with just the commands from the original Gentoo install page and probably get the original kernel up and running.
Could I also use this floppy to install and configure grub on /dev/hda8 to make that partition the one I boot from? That would be wonderful if it works. That way I could remove system Commander, boot Gentoo first, and then chain load to Windows as per lots of instructions out there. Do you see any problems with this strategy? Thanks for all the help. Cheers, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
