Gentoo GRUB Questions

[cheetahman]

Currently I have a triboot computer with Windows XP,SUSE 10.1 and Fedora Core 5 I want to remove FC 5 and install Gentoo 2006 using the live cd and I also want SUSE to be the Bootloader would I just put the kernel in /boot and for the

Bootloader it lists GRUB,LILO,NONE-Would I select None
Install to MBR-And would this be selected or Not
Boot Drive-Would this be hda

[je_fro]

I don't think too many people have reliably installed gentoo with that graphical installer. I know I haven't. IMO the best thing to do is to read the install guide and then do a console install with the install guide on your lap. I'm serious, read the guide first.

[saikee]

Pretty straight forward stuff I would say.

Juts boot up your Suse. To have Suse controlling the MBR you need select terminal mode, issue "su" and followed with a root password so that you have root privileges to amend its boot loader. To put Suse's Grub in MBR you isse the Bash command
grub-install /dev/hda
Thereafter you edit Suse's boot/grub/menu.lst to boot whatever system that takes your fancy.

Lastly you edit Suse's /boot/grub/menu.lst to boot FC5 partition by chainloading.

You then install Gentoo over the FC5 position and instruct Gentoo's installer to install its boot loader in its "root partition".

After Gentoo has been installed and you opt for boot up FC5 again Grub will load the same FC5 partition and give you Gentoo instead. When you are happy with it just edit Suse's /boot/grub/menu.lst "title" line changing FC5 to Gentoo.

The problem can take a different turn for the worse if you have installed FC5 in multiple partitions and possibly using LVM.