[ale] Getting Linux OS to boot

[Geoffrey]

Trey Sizemore wrote:
> I have 2 IDE drives laid out as follows:
> 
> 1 (master) - 80GB with FreeBSD occupying entire drive
> 2 (slave) - 80GB with 4 linux distros
>    hdb1- Fedora Core 3 /
>    hdb2 - Fedora Core 3 /home
>    hdb3 - swap
>    hdb4 - ***EXTENDED PARTITION***
>    hdb5 - SUSE 9.2 /
>    hdb6 - SUSE 9.2 /home
>    hdb7 - Mandrake 10.2 /
>    hdb8 - Mandrake 10.2 /home
>    hdb9 - Arch 0.7 /
>    hdb10 - Arch 0.7 /home
> 
> When I installed the Linux distros I chose not to install a boot loader 
> for any of them (thinking that a bootmanager like GAG would handle 
> this).  In retrospect, this may have been a conceptual error as GAG 
> would error with "Boot sector not found or corrupt" for these 
> partitions.  On the advice of someone on the Fedora User's list, I 
> booted the Fedora CD in rescue mode and:
> # chroot /mnt/sysimage
> # /sbin/grub-install /dev/hdb1
> 
> When I rebooted with GAG and set it to boot Fedora using hdb1, it now 
> gives me a 'grub>' prompt.

What does the grub config file look like?  You might try running 
grub-install.


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Until later, Geoffrey