On 10/13/2008 09:38 AM, H.S. wrote:
Hello, I just installed Fedora Core 9 alongside Debian. During the installation I did not update grub and chose not to install grub since I wanted to retain my Debian grub configuration. I have done this before. I just change Debian's grub to put in the relevant stanzas for my FC kernel (was FC8 till today). [...]
I can't see why it doesn't work since you seem to have the bases covered. When faced with the need to install two Linuxes on the same box, I usually install only one copy of Grub to the MBR. All other Linux OS's are set to install to the superblocks of their partitions.
That allows me two advantages: I can use chain-loading for the secondary OS's, and each Linux OS has perfect boot stanzas in their respective /boot/grub/menu.lst files.
I recommend installing Grub under FC9, but install it to the superblock of /dev/sda13--NOT the MBR. You should then have a perfect boot stanza written to Fedora's menu.lst.
Good luck.