Re: Kernel update via yum on triple-boot machine

From: Itay Furman (itayf_at_u.washington.edu)
Date: 03/20/05

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    On Sun, 20 Mar 2005, Gene Heskett wrote:

    > Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 11:25:15 -0500
    > From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
    > To: Itay Furman <itayf@u.washington.edu>,
    > For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>
    > Subject: Re: Kernel update via yum on triple-boot machine
    >
    > On Sunday 20 March 2005 09:45, Itay Furman wrote:

    [snip]

    >> I suspect it is related to the fact that this is a triple-boot
    >> machine with the following set up:
    >>
    >> /dev/hda1 Dell utilities
    >> /dev/hda2 Windows
    >> /dev/hda3 boot (gentoo; **grub is installed here**)
    >> ...
    >> /dev/hda9 boot (FC2)
    >>
    >> If so I could manually edit grub.conf under /dev/hda3 to point to
    >> the new kernel.
    >
    > yes, you can have many verses in youur grub.conf. Unforch, the
    > manpage isn't very clear on some details, and the context sensitive
    > use of the 'root' keyword can be very confusing to gnubies. On a
    > line by itself the root (hd0,0) means thats the '/boot' partition for
    > the intended install, where the first '0' means the first drive,
    > usually hda, and the second '0' means the partition number, which
    > could mean hda1.
    >
    > But when used as the argument appended to the kernel line, it then
    > becomes the pointer to the '/' filesystem of this particular boot
    > configuration verse of your grub.conf. I believe, but am not sure,
    > that you will have to consolidate to one, and one only, /boot
    > partitions, putting all the various versions of vmlinuz, and the grub
    > subdirs into this single partition, which is then mounted as /boot
    > for everything but the windows install.
    >

    Thanks for clearing this up.

    > Personally, I'd blow away the windows install and put the grub
    > bootloader in the mbr of hda. Grub, I'm told, can boot windows just
    > fine. But if you blow it way you don't have to worry about the next
    > windows viri/worm of the week. But then maybe I'm a bit odd, I've
    > never had a windows install here, ever. Its a nice snug feeling &
    > windows has yet to have the killer app that I couldn't either fudge
    > up a workalike in os9 or amigados or linux, or do without with no
    > pangs of regret. I'm not heavy on game playing so that probably
    > helps.
    >

    I'd blow it away too, but this machine serves others too.
    To be fair, the windows O$ saved me once or twice when I was
    in a hurry.

    > In your case, the intended update has no knowledge of the location
    > where you installed your initial grub. Just add the stuff to your
    > grub.conf and it *should* be ok.
    >

    Thanks for the info and the advice.

             Itay

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