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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Fedora Core 3 boot diskette Post 62321 by Mark McWilliams on Tuesday 15th of February 2005 01:12:04 AM
Old 02-15-2005
Fedora Core 3 boot diskette
I want to upgrade from Red Hat Linux 8.0 to Fedora Core 3. I have already downloaded FC3 on CD's. My current config. on my PC is that I have Win XP on primary hard drive and Red Hat 8.0 on another hard drive. Because my Compaq Presario reserves the first cylinder of my primary hard drive, I cannot use the GRUB utility (per conversation with RH Helpdesk a couple of years ago.) My understanding of GRUB is that it looks at the 1st cylinder of the hard drive to use dual boot.

I currently use a Red Hat 8.0 boot diskette when I want to switch from WIN XP to RH 8.0. My question is that when I upgrade to Fedora Core 3 on my second hard drive, can I use my existing boot diskette that was created when using RH 8.0 or do I have to make a new boot diskette after I upgrade to Fedora Core 3?? And if that is the case, what are the commands to create new boot diskette for FC3 after upgrade has taken place.

Any ideas would be helpful.
 

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installgrub

installgrub(1M) 														   installgrub(1M)

NAME

       installgrub - install GRUB in a disk partition or a floppy

SYNOPSIS

       /sbin/installgrub [-fm] stage1 stage2 raw-device

       The installgrub command is an -only program. GRUB stands for GRand Unified Bootloader.

       installgrub  installs  GRUB  stage  1  and  stage  2  files on the boot area of a disk partition. If you specify the -m option, installgrub
       installs the stage 1 file on the master boot sector of the disk.

       The installgrub command accepts the following options:

       -f

	   Suppresses interaction when overwriting the master boot sector.

       -m

	   Installs GRUB stage1 on the master boot sector interactively.

       The installgrub command accepts the following operands:

       stage1

	   The name of the GRUB stage 1 file.

       stage2

	   The name of the GRUB stage 2 file.

       raw-device

	   The name of the device onto which GRUB code is to be installed. It must be a character device that is readable and writable.  For  disk
	   devices,  specify  the  slice  where  the  GRUB  menu  file	is  located.  (For Solaris it is the root slice.) For a floppy disk, it is
	   /dev/rdiskette.

       Example 1: Installing GRUB on a Hard Disk Slice

       The following command installs GRUB on a system where the root slice is c0d0s0:

       example# /sbin/installgrub /boot/grub/stage1 
		/boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c0d0s0

       Example 2: Installing GRUB on a Floppy

       The following command installs GRUB on a formatted floppy:

       example# mount -F pcfs /dev/diskette /mnt
       # mkdir -p /mnt/boot/grub
       # cp /boot/grub/* /mnt/boot/grub
       # umount /mnt
       # cd /boot/grub
       # /sbin/installgrub stage1 stage2 /dev/rdiskette

       /boot/grub

	   Directory where GRUB files reside.

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Evolving			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

       boot(1M), fdisk(1M), fmthard(1M), kernel(1M), attributes(5)

       Installing GRUB on the master boot sector (-m option) overrides any boot manager currently installed on the machine. The system will always
       boot the GRUB in the Solaris partition regardless of which fdisk partition is active.

								    24 May 2005 						   installgrub(1M)
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