Re: Fedora 8 Grub to sdb?

#1 (**permalink**) 02-23-2008, 12:29 AM

I had posted this to linux.redhat.install, forgot to cross-post here. :-(

red floyd wrote:
> I've got two PATA disks. Disk 0 (sda) is dedicated to Windows, Disk 1
> (sdb) is dedicated to Linux.
>
> I recently decided to wipe sdb and install Fedora 8 from scratch. I
> use my system's BIOS to select the boot drive -- It's a shared
> machine, and GRUB'ing sda would confuse the heck out of my wife.
>
> So I want to install grub on sdb. However, the install only allows
> sda as an option. So I told the installer not to put grub on the
> system. I then booted the install DVD rescue, did a chroot to /mnt/
> sysimage, and did a grub-install /dev/sdb.
>
> But this didn't give me a menu.lst. When I tried to hand-install one,
> it didn't work; boot errors (don't remember the specifics right now).
>
> Can anyone give me a hand on this? Is there a particular reason
> Fedora insists on sda? That's as bad as Windows insisting that it
> needs the boot sector all to itself.

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