On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 01:15:12PM -0500, Yuser wrote: > On a side note.. Debian is on /dev/hda1 and Fedora on > /dev/hda5. I am not familier with Grub but I can no longer > boot from the Debian partition. I tried several things with > the the Grub configuration based on what I could pull out of > the Debian lilo.conf after I mounted the Debian partition > within Fedora. The furthest I've got so far is a chain loader > error when attemting to boot Debian. I know this is VERY vague > but any help would be taken!
The flexible, but convoluted way is to keep grub on /dev/hda and reference /dev/hda1 using chainloader. Then change the boot in lilo.conf to /dev/hda1 and rerun lilo. I think this is where you are getting the chainloader error. You need lilo to install its boot record on /dev/hda1. The more straightforward approach is to do away with lilo and edit a grub entry that references the root on /dev/hda1 and the kernel on /dev/hda1. If you want lilo to be the primary loader, keep it on /dev/hda, and move grub's loader to /dev/hda5. And the fault tolerant question: where is your boot floppy to quickly get you out of situations like this? :) -Vince
