On Thursday 26 May 2005 23:04, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote: > On Thu, 26 May 2005, R M wrote:
> > add boot settings for new distro in the already > > installed boot loader's config file. > > Can't be done, the OP says he has to have XP on this machine. So > that will hog the mbr. What I suggest is install the bootloader on > the first part of the respective root partitions. Use grub as the boot loader. U dont need to reinstall grub unless u install windows xyz AFTER installing grub. You just need to edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst. In the case of lilo u have to reinstall lilo everytime u edit the /etc/lilo.conf. Also grub allows editing of every parameter at boot time. It can also read file systems, provides a shell (grub shell) and has online help. So it's very handy if you are juggling distros, kernels and drives. BIG FAT WARNING: write down what ever u are doing to prevent disaster. Some distros do not create the menu.lst. So get one and copy it to /boot/grub. Grub numbers disks and partitions starting with 0. So hda5 - the first logical partition on the primary ide - is (hd0,4) eg root (hd0,4) Ideally install windoz first. Then the other distros. Also create a mount point for the partition which holds /boot/grub in all the installs, so that u can edit menu.lst easily. In any case u can boot any distro from the grub shell like so > root (hdx,y) > kernel (hdx,y)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11-abcd root=/dev/hda10 ide=ata100 dma etc > etc append="whatever" note root=/dev/hda10 is the regular linux naming convention.. if u have an initrd > initrd (hdx,y)/initrd/initrd-2.6.11-abcd > boot rgds jtd -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
