I recently used a purchased centos 5.2 dvd to install. It all went smoothly, and I am up and running automagically it seems to have upgraded itself to 5.3 Final One peculiarity: I believe I was given the choice of: --installing the bootloader into mbr or --no bootloader install I did not want my mbr overwritten, so I chose no bootloader Why is there no choice of 1st sector of root partition? or did I just miss it? I wanted to chainload the centos install, but that requires grub installed into 1st sector of root partition. So after the os install I used knoppix livecd to > grub root (hd1,4) # sdb5 is my centos partition setup (hd1,4) and centos now loads from a chainloader +1 in my grub partition So I have fixed it; but curious as to why the install dvd didn't give me the choice there. Jack
On Mon, 18 May 2009 15:58:26 -0700 jackson byers wrote:> > >One peculiarity: >I believe I was given the choice of: >--installing the bootloader into mbr >or >--no bootloader install > >I did not want my mbr overwritten, so I chose no bootloader > >Why is there no choice of 1st sector of root partition? > >or did I just miss it?You need to select 'install bootloader' to the hard disk, and then advanced options, where you can tell it to install it to /boot instead of MBR. You should have created /boot in the partitioning stage. I assume you are using some other boot manager. -- Julian Thomas: jt at jt-mj.net http://jt-mj.net In the beautiful Genesee Valley of Western New York State! -- -- Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Julian responded> You need to select 'install bootloader' to the hard disk, and then advanced options, > where you can tell it to install > it to /boot instead of MBR. > You should have created /boot in the partitioning stage.> I assume you are using some other boot manager > Julian ThomasThanks, Julian, that tells me what I missed. FYI: I am not using a /boot partition, all of centos is in sdb5. I am using grub, but it is installed into a small ~ 10 Mb grub-only partition sdb9. That chainloads all my os's, centos(sdb5), fc5(sdb6), f10(sda1) I havent been able to get f10 X working. Jack