"Chaining" several linux through Grub?

From: Dan Say (danielsayNOSPAMM_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/27/05 

Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 23:18:38 -0700

   I got one of my loaners back.
   An Intel P3 with 256 Meg Ram, 700 MHz
   on a Gigabyte 6BXE motherboard and the Award Bios
   chip.

   It had a 15 Gig disk with Windows 2000 on C and
2 Vfat partitions.
   I had put Mandriva 10 on it for a trial and set up
Grub as the boot driver.

   Now I put in an second drive Western Digital 60 Gig
to put several Linux such as SuSE 9.3 (and OS/2) on.
   First problem solved when the BIOS doesn't recognize
drives larger than 33 Gig, by setting the BIOS settings
to ignore the very large drive in the Primary Slave setting,
and letting the Primary Master boot into the Mandriva Grub.

   Now, how to put several Linux on the second drive.
It seems that when I make five 9 Gig partitions on it, that Grub
can't find them or won't boot.

   Scanning web, and DejaNews says that there are limits
to size of the what the Grub can go to in the beginning
as it isn't in Linux yet,
   So one solution is a whole bunch of small (1 Gig?) partitions
with various / setups and the rest of the suites in later, larger
partitions when Linuxes have boosted.
   SuSE's Grub is good and should work, but from the third
partition when installed, its GRUB written to HDA causes a fault
(perhaps because it can't reboot to that HDB4 partition).

   I thought that I could chain Grubs, so that boot to the first
Linux and then it would show another and then another and so on
to boot generally any disk to the SuSE Linux limit.
   Is that a good idea or are there better ways to run to the
second very large drive?
                                      danielsay@NOSPAMyahoo.com

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