On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Agnello George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So let me guess when we install linux we have the follow in the partition > table > > in hd0 > we have > / > /boot > swap > > and hd1 > we have > / > /boot > swap > > and in hd0 we have the grub.conf file located in /boot/grub/grub.conf > > and in hd1 we have the grub.conf file located in /boot/grub/grub.conf > > so ultimately which conf file is read ?? To install grub, if you do a grub-install /dev/hda, the file in /dev/hda is read. While installing a second distro for multibooting, you will be asked if you need to install a fresh copy of grub, if you say yes, it will be re-installed in the MBR and will point to the grub.conf of that distro's /boot partition. This is sufficient only to get the initial grub boot menu screen. After that what kernel to boot is taken from the root and kernel parameters of grub.conf. BTW, when you do a df -k after booting to any one distro of your multiboot system, have you ever seen two /boot, two / and two swap partitions? Regards, NMK. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
