Manu Hack wrote:
>>>> Edit the file /tmp/newroot/boot/grub/menu.lst and replace (hd0,1) with
>>>> (hda0,0) and root=/dev/hda2 with root=/dev/hda1. Similarly fix the root
>>>> filesystem entry in /tmp/newroot/etc/fstab by changing /dev/hda2 to
>>>> /dev/hda1.
>>>>
>>>> Now you should be able to boot into either of your two partitions.
>>> So I got two grub/menu.lst, but how grub knows which one to read (one
>>> is hda1 and one is hda2)?
>> Grub will read the menu.lst from the partition that contained
>> /boot/grub/menu.lst when "grub-install" was run.
>
> So if I want grub to read the menu.lst from hda1, I should boot in
> using hda1 and run grub-install /dev/hda1 and then supposedly I can
> use hda2 for other storage?
>
Yes, except that the command should be "grub-install /dev/hda" to
install grub on the master boot record.


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