From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DxWrS-0002vc-Il for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 21:21:15 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6QLJ0Af017651; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 21:19:00 GMT Received: from mail.magrittesystems.com (adsl-64-173-154-114.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [64.173.154.114]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6QL9pqB008161 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 21:09:52 GMT Received: by mail.magrittesystems.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EFCA63C0008; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 13:44:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.magrittesystems.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9E783C0006 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 13:44:47 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 13:44:47 -0700 (PDT) From: michael@michaelshiloh.com X-X-Sender: michael@mail.magrittesystems.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Having trouble installing grub on second disk In-Reply-To: <20050726220002.6539995a@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Message-ID: References: <20050726220002.6539995a@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Archives-Salt: 340fcb68-f27c-43e5-968f-011e5c940518 X-Archives-Hash: 5c2806a2bed0c95fee69c68d590c5ab5 On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 13:12:40 -0700 (PDT), michael@michaelshiloh.com wrote: > >> I have Gentoo (2005.0) installed on my master primary device, and I >> am trying to create a minimal Linux system on a new disk, my slave >> primary device. >> >> So, I partition and make a 32M ext2 file system, make the appropriate >> directories and devices, install busybox and other odds and ends. Then I >> copy over the kernel from my Gentoo system (same hardware, so the same >> kernel). >> >> Finally I install grub on the slave primary device, and set up my >> grub.conf like so: >> >> default 0 >> timeout 10 >> >> title=minimal linux on slave primary device >> root (hd1,0) >> kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 >> >> root (hd1,0) should be the first partition on my slave primary device > > You don't need to install GRUB on the slave drive, just add this to your > existing grub.conf. GRUB is able to boot from a different drive. Ah, but eventually the first disk will go away. It's just support while I develop the minimal install. So I do need grub on it. But thanks for responding anyway, I appreciate the help Michael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list