Complicated chain loading

Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey
Sat Mar 17 12:58:31 PDT 2007


Not for the faint of heart; I need a LILO/GRUB expert.

Three drives:  sda, sdb, hda (two SATA, one IDE).
sda is the first boot drive.
LILO is on the MBR of sda1 (SuSE).  I have it set up to chain load SuSE 
on sda1,  The Evil OS on hda, or FC-6 on sdb2.
GRUB is in the boot sector of sdb2;  I let FC-6 set it up 'cause I don't 
know GRUB.

The Evil OS requires re-mapping drive geometry to make it think that hda 
is the first drive.  This is easy in LILO.  Of course, SuSE in sda1 also 
boots.

But, I get a GRUB Geometry Error when trying to boot sdb2.  Do I need to 
do the same geometry mapping for GRUB as I need to for The Evil OS?

Thanks!

-- 
Tony Alfrey
tonyalfrey at earthlink.net
"I'd Rather Be Sailing"



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