Hi, First THANKS to members giving me pointers and site addresses while I was learning GRUB.(Still learning) This is for members new to linux & GRUB. This is a WONDERFULL bootloader - (LILO is fine.) If you start to understand its workings you can produce "magic" with it. Make a GRUB bootdisk - copy your HD menu.lst to it. Now your MBR on your first HD/or whatever with the list may get wiped/corrupted(sometimes it even do not need any reason at all) and you can still boot any of your OS'ses on any partition/drive from this bootdisk with no problem - it will seem it is from HD. If you have to make a choice - choose GRUB. If you are a LILO user you can still change to GRUB - with some STUDY it is easy - on Mandrake/Redhat it is already installed - check for /boot/grub/menu.lst - need only to be activated - again please - first it needs some study. ************* For those interested please find attched a copy of my menu.lst - All work fine exceept the one with Problem. Probably need some more study. Viewing this file you can see how many dos and linux partitions can be booted - according to papers there is actually no limit. ************* Enjoy Johan . May this be a good day for learning
timeout 10 color black/cyan yellow/cyan i18n (hd0,4)/boot/grub/messages keytable (hd0,4)/boot/us.klt altconfigfile (hd0,4)/boot/grub/menu.once default 0
title Mandrake9.1-hde5 kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hde5 quiet devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off vga=788 initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img title linux-nonfb kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hde5 devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img title failsafe kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hde5 failsafe devfs=nomount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img # title redhat9.0-hde7 kernel (hd0,6)/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 root=/dev/hde7 initrd (hd0,6)/boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img # title linux9.0-hdg6 kernel (hd1,5)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdg6 initrd (hd1,5)/boot/initrd.img # title Dos-hde1 root (hd0,0) chainloader +1 title Dos-hdg1 unhide (hd1,0) hide (hd1,1) hide (hd1,2) root (hd1,0) map (0x81) (0x80) map (0x80) (0x81) makeactive chainloader +1 # title Dos-hdg2 hide (hd1,0) unhide (hd1,1) hide (hd1,2) root (hd1,1) map (0x81) (0x80) map (0x80) (0x81) chainloader +1 makeactive # title Dos-hdg3 hide (hd1,0) hide (hd1,1) unhide (hd1,2) root (hd1,2) map (0x81) (0x80) map (0x80) (0x81) makeactive chainloader +1 # title Dos-hdg-Problem hide (hd1,0) hide (hd1,1) hide (hd1,2) unhide (hd1,4) root (hd1,4) map (0x81) (0x80) map (0x80) (0x81) makeactive chainloader +1 # title floppy root (fd0) chainloader +1
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