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After that you don't need it any +</I>>>>><i> more because you will have to add new distributions manually to the +</I>>>>><i> list. +</I>>>><i> You can use drakboot as it is now to add "things to be chainloaded" +</I>>>><i> to the list. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> But that makes only sense for the bootloader which is in the MBR. So +</I>>><i> you do it once and never again. +</I>>><i> Whenever you add a distribution, you put the bootloader of this new +</I>>><i> one in its root partition. Then you boot the distribution which has +</I>>><i> its bootloader in the MBR and add the relevant 3 lines into its +</I>>><i> menu.lst. You can't use drakboot for that. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> It would make most sense to start with a bootloader in the MBR +</I>><i> then go to a root partition bootloader and finaly an operating Lystem, +</I>><i> but LiLo and GRUB let you go "up" a level back to the MBR's +</I>><i> bootloader, or "sideways".  e.g. From /dev/sda to /dev/sda12 +</I>><i> to /dev/sda1 to /dev/sda to /dev/sda2 to an OS.  It can even +</I>><i> loop to itself, pointless but it works. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> If you want to do things like that, then you need to be +</I>><i> very careful about how you label things. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Do different things get listed in Mageia's bootloader config +</I>><i> depending on whether it is written to the MBR or the root +</I>><i> partition?  Find everything if going to MBR, only list Mageia +</I>><i> stuff (and "back") if going to the root partition? +</I>><i> +</I>><i> BTW I was assuming that every distribution has its own tools. +</I>><i> If your "master" installation is Mageia (or even if it is not) +</I>><i> you can use drakboot to add chainloader commands to Mageia's +</I>><i> GRUB or LiLo configuration. +</I> +Well, if you say so, I'm not sure I fully understand what you +described. Of course I never looked for such an occasion because my +"steering distribution" (the one with the bootloader in MBR) is a +small one without X and without any applications except for vim as +editor (old version of grml, below 100MB) and a few commandline tools +so it can also serve as a rescue system. + +So when I install Mageia after that I go to the summary in the +installer, configure the bootloader to sit in the root partition of +Mageia. Then at reboot I boot grml, add the 3 matching lines for the +Mageia installation to the menu.lst and that's all. Likewise I can do +with all following installations. I've been doing it for years this +way. + +Of course this is not really something for a totally new user, OTOH a +totally new user does not have several different distributions on his +machine. But even such a user will be able to follow instructions (in +the German mandrivauser.de wiki we have a step-by-step HowTo for +that). + +-- +wobo +</PRE> + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="007199.html">[Mageia-discuss] can bootable partitions be detected during installation? +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="007204.html">[Mageia-discuss] About routers and switches and Mbit/s +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#7200">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#7200">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#7200">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#7200">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |