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> Trey Sizemore wrote:
>
>> I have 2 IDE drives laid out as follows:
>>
>> 1 (master) - 80GB with FreeBSD occupying entire drive
>> 2 (slave) - 80GB with 4 linux distros
>>    hdb1- Fedora Core 3 /
>>    hdb2 - Fedora Core 3 /home
>>    hdb3 - swap
>>    hdb4 - ***EXTENDED PARTITION***
>>    hdb5 - SUSE 9.2 /
>>    hdb6 - SUSE 9.2 /home
>>    hdb7 - Mandrake 10.2 /
>>    hdb8 - Mandrake 10.2 /home
>>    hdb9 - Arch 0.7 /
>>    hdb10 - Arch 0.7 /home
>>
>> When I installed the Linux distros I chose not to install a boot 
>> loader for any of them (thinking that a bootmanager like GAG would 
>> handle this).  In retrospect, this may have been a conceptual error 
>> as GAG would error with "Boot sector not found or corrupt" for these 
>> partitions.  On the advice of someone on the Fedora User's list, I 
>> booted the Fedora CD in rescue mode and:
>> # chroot /mnt/sysimage
>> # /sbin/grub-install /dev/hdb1
>>
>> When I rebooted with GAG and set it to boot Fedora using hdb1, it now 
>> gives me a 'grub>' prompt.
>
>
> What does the grub config file look like?  You might try running 
> grub-install.
>
>
Well, I've not got it where I can boot to Mandrake (rescue mode allowed 
me to install grub on the slave drive's MBR).  So now the trick will be 
to add the other distros to Mandrake's grub.conf file...haven't done 
that in quite a while.  I'm sure with a little digging I can remember 
the format.


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