It looks fine. You can also press e at the Grub prompt or boot to a live cd if it isn't right.
-Chris On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Monday 24 November 2008 23:04:54 Harry Putnam wrote: >>> I'm just having second doubts about how to dual boot 2 gentoo >>> installations. >>> >>> Can I just edit grub from the original install and add the appropriate >>> kernal line like: >>> >>> title=kernel-2.6.27-r3-0x31a-1280x1024 >>> root (hd0,0) >>> kernel /kernel-2.6.27-r3 root=/dev/hda5 vga=0x31A video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap >>> >>> ## add this for new install >>> >>> title=kernel-2.6.27-r4-0x31a-1280x1024 >>> root (hd1,1) >>> kernel (hd1,1)/boot/kernel-2.6.27-r4 root=/dev/hdb2 vga=0x31A >>> video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap >>> >>> >>> I didn't want to just try it in case there is something I've forgotten >>> that is likely to get screwed up. >>> >>> I'm not asking if the addressing is right, just asking if in general >>> this can be done with no problems. >> >> You have the right idea. >> >> Make sure your paths are correct when you install. I see you have different >> conventions on the two drives. Don't get confused :-) > > Thanks but I'm not sure what you mean by conventions... do you mean > differences like that boot is not a separate partition? > > And the install is already largely done but still from a chrooted > shell with the original Installation booted. > > >
