Hi, I'm wondering about the best way to handle this problem. For a long time I've used System Commander to create multi-boot systems. However, it has (or maybe I have) finally hosed up things enough playing with Windows installations that I'd like to get rid of it totally and just use grub. Right now the state my machine is in it will only boot into Windows. When I try to boot any Linux distro on the box (Gentoo, Redhat or Mandrake) all I get is the message 'GRUB' and everything stops. All the partitions are there, but Windows and SC7 have renumbered the partitions so everything is hosed up and Linux won't boot.
(I should boot with labels instead of partition numbers I think...) One option would just be to build a second Gentoo installation, and then from there fix up that installation's grub files. This is straight forward and I'm sure I can get it working, but it creates more work than I think I should have to do. I'm happy to do that if it's the safest way to go. One idea I had was to try creating a 'grub-only' partition, sort of distribution neutral, and then from there boot all Linux distro's, and Windows or DOS. Does this make any sense? One problem I think I'm going to have is that to get Linux booting again after SC7 renumbered the partitions will require that I be able to mount each distribution somewhere, edit it's configuration files, like fstab to fix these numbering problems, as well as discover each distro's boot image file names, and then reboot. Possibly just this amount of work will require a whole distribution to get things going? What about a floppy based distro of some type? Anyway, this is getting too long. I'm looking for ideas and I know hits group has them. Thanks in advance, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
