So In conclusion: I am looking for help with Grub custom files or a secondary grub that the primary will launch maybe? You Grub guru's know more about that than I so I will await your reply.įunny thing is, I am doing all of this to find the ultimate Linux for Boinc Grid Computing for Scientific Research, LOL now one would think Scientific Linux would be great for that, but you would be wrong. So if you are not as experienced as I am on recovering a Dead Mac then I would probably avoid playing with it. So I just use the option key hold down method at restart as that is exactly the same thing anyway, where rEFIt killed me was when I chose to have it update my MBR. I have remove rEFIt as it did cause my sda Mac OS X to crash, I was not able to repair it with Disk Utilities that come with OS X however as always Disk Warrior saved me again. I can put Fedora in sdc if someone can help me configure the Grub, as always I am welcoming any and all ideas related to this. So from this point I need some help to figure out should I install Fedora without a boot loader and have the existing grub launch it, remember the existing grub is located in the sda and Scientific is in sdb. Fedora will only let me put it on the drive I am installing on. Scientific Linux, the reason I have figured out why I can load it and not Fedora is that Scientific Linux will let me put the boot loader in the MBR of sda (Master Boot Record of the Mac OS X hard drive. Well while I am still not able to figure out how to get Fedora to run on it's own I do have your sister Linux running at this very moment. I am ready to try whatever I just have less than 1 week in linux and do nat have the knowledge of what to do yet. I am going though all of this trouble because I want to learn Linux and understand computers better, however I am not willing to give up my Boinc Grid Computing cycles. So I am confident we won't mess things up to where I can't up it back. My Main internal Hard-drive Mac OS is Backed up on a second internal weekly back up hard-drive as well as an external Monthly back up hard-drive. Also I think I need to know how to set the boot-loader grub stuff inside that 1st Mac partition ( I'm not sure that is how it works, but anything you want me to try, I am game for). I am hoping somebody can give me some instruction as in how to setup the installation and partitions so that Fedora 13 install leaves that 1st 1 GB Mac OS partition alone and uses the rest of the drive however it likes. However if I do not create that small 1 GB Mac OS Extended Partition as the 1st partition the Mac OS will not recognize or initialize the drive. (I am not sure how this works I know I got totally lucky, I was just trying different configuration options within the install DVD and one actually worked). The openSUSE install disk changed into what it needed, after install I ran the repair and I was able to I believe put the boot-loader grub on the 1st Mac OS partition. So if you read the link to my How To post on the openSUSE forum, I had to start out with a 1 GB OS Mac Extended Partition and the rest I put in the second partition as MS-DOS (FAT). Fedora is the Linux Distribution that the Boinc website seems to recommend as best for updating and running their Boinc Client Manager. I assumed all Linux Distributions would run boinc the same, I was wrong. I need this to run Natively (on it's own) and not through a virtual machine, because my computer runs 24-7 for World Community Grid through Boinc. I am sure it is possible to have a Linux Distribution on it's own hard drive on my Mac Pro System, as I have already done so with openSUSE 11.2, here is how I did it =>
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