On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 23:47, koko wrote: > Keith aka Skippy aka Gandalf (has DHS checked all these out yet?) , you are > my hero. Thank you. All is well now, and my kin will be able to access XP > to their hearts content, not knowing the near miss with my continued > experimentation. Ah hell, its only games and e-mails anyway on their part, > and I back up their mail.... But I hesitated at following your instructions > to the letter. Not to belabour the point, but why would I not have > maintained consistency with what my own system said [root (hd1,0)] and > followed yours [root (hd0,0)]? Did it make any difference or was the > [title] entry the key to success? In the end, I did follow your > instructions and it worked. So once again, thanks.
OK, your system has 2 hard drives, correct? RedHat is on the second drive and XP is on the first. In your menu.list it has "root (hd1,0)" in the Red Hat entry - the hd1=second drive and the 0 means first partition. Thus, with XP being on the first drive, it has to be hd0 and assuming it's also on the first (only?) partition on the drive, 0= first partition To sum it all up, disks are numbered from hd0 upwards with hd0=1st drive and hd1=2nd drive, hd2=3rd drive and so on. Partitions are also "numbered" the same way. HTH, -- Myles Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
