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[eric zhang]

Hi, GRUB experts,

I admit that this is not a bug.  This may be a feature request.
I send this to you only because I could not find another contact, and
I could not find this GRUB info after reading the doc and FAQ. Please
forgive me if I send this to you incorrectly and bothered you, in which
case I hope you will be kind enough to direct me to the right contact.

I have a RedHat Linux 7.3 image CD, which installs, without giving me a
choice, GRUB.  (I have good non-technical reason to use it, instead of,
say a standard RedHat CD.)  I can't choose "boot from a diskette".

My PC has two HDs, and I plan to change partitions around in the future.

Here is current HD partition layout:
 HD1 has three NTFS partitions installed, C: OS; D: data; F: data.
 HD2 has two ext2 partitions and a 5M freespace, in this order.
 i.e. ext2_partition1, ext2_partition2, 5M_freespace

I would like to install the Linux image on the HD2 freespace.

My question is:
 if I change the partition layout on HD2 in the future, (e.g., install
the image on ext2_partition1 and make current 5M_freespace as
ext2_partition3, or change the size of these partitions on HD1 and HD2,
etc.) can (and how) GRUB be reconfigured to handle the change?

I noticed that after being installed, GRUB couldnot be removed even
I reformat the entire HD.  I prefer to boot from a diskette so that
by default the PC always boot into Windows2000, nobody will notice
any difference.  I can setup GRUB to boot into Windows2000 by default.
But what if later I repartition the HD2, and reinstall Linux on HD2?

Thanks in advance.

Eric








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