On Wednesday 20 April 2005 13:51, Vickram Crishna wrote:
> At 11:44 AM +0530 4/13/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> his help would probably have worked). Many thanks to both of you,
> but I am sorry to say I still need help.
Always welcome as long as you are doing your bit which is trying.
>
> >title deb-2.6.10
> >root(hd0,0)
> >kernel /vmlinuz boot=/dev/hda1 dma acpi append="whatever"
> >
> >here is my menu.lst
>
> I could boot up using the RH9 install disk and going to the command
> line, but failed miserably to find the menu.lst file.
Ok copy and paste my menu.lst in your grub partition then edit it to
suit your installation. note grub is installed in my mbr.
>
> My question is, can I manually write an entirely new boot loader to
> MBR without reinstalling
Yes you can but that is avoided by even the linux grey beards. You
have to use dd. In the case of floppies
dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 count=1 bs=1024
dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 seek=1 bs=512
Ofcourse it is also a nice way to SCREW your harddisk.
> (especially since even the install disk
> didn't seem to be able to do that automatically, and the Ubuntu
> installer wants to rewrite the partitions, which I guess will lose
> me the RH9 installation)? My active partitions (ext3 fs) are hda6
> (/) and hda7 (/usr), and I have hda8 (swap) also. Other partitions
> on the disk are Windows98 fs where I already have a Win98
> installation and data.
You have to install grub only once:
grub-install /dev/hda
After that you only need to edit ../grub/menu.lst or cut and paste
the lines below into a text file called menu.lst and save it to ../grub
root (hd0,5)
boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=10
title deb-2.6.10
root (hd0,5)
kernel /vmlinuz ro root=/dev/hda6 idebus=66 append="hdd=ide-scsi dma
apm=power-off"
#the above line is a single line dont wrap it.
title win
root (hd0,1)
# hide (hd0,4)
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
rgds
jtd
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