Hi, The installation web page is confusing me a bit, so I wanted to get some help on the grub setup steps for a new machine. This machine uses System Commander 7 to boot a number of OS's. I want to first boot that, make my choice for Gentoo, and then jump to grub to choose a kernel. The disk setup is:
/dev/hda1 DOS & SC7 /dev/hda2 Win ME /dev/hda4 Extended partition /dev/hda5 /boot (50MB) /dev/hda6 swap /dev/hda7 / (6GB) I'm thinking I want a 'Grub not on the MBR' type installation. I've chosen this with other Linux distributions. ***** FROM INSTALLATION PAGE ***** Code listing 23.3: GRUB not on the MBR Alternatively, if you wanted to install the bootloader somewhere other than the MBR grub> root (hd0,0) // Your boot partition grub> setup (hd0,4) // Where the boot record is installed, here it is /dev/hda5 grub> quit ********************************** I'm thinking that I should choose: grub> root (hd0,4) // My boot partition - /dev/hda5 grub> setup (hd0,4) // Where I want grub - /dev/hda5 grub> quit And then the grub.conf file points at /dev/hda7 for the root partition. I'm finding the web page confusing since it says root (hd0,0) is a 'not on the MBR' setup, but usually /dev/hda1 IS the MBR partition, or so I thought. Thanks in advance, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
