Hi,
Well..........NO NO NO or YES YES YES
here is my menu.lst from the mbr starting various OS flavors effortlessly.
But you should know what you are doing..thats linux..various ways to reach succes..but
the choice is yours..
Goodluck
Johan
title Windows XP Home hdg1
root (hd1,0)
map (0x81) (0x80)
map (0x80) (0x81)
makeactive
chainloader +1
#*******************************************
title Mandrake 262-0rc22ent
kernel (hd0,8)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.2-0.rc2.2mdkenterprise devfs=mount splash=silent
hdd=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hde11 vga=788 root=/dev/hde9
initrd (hd0,8)/boot/initrd-2.6.2-0.rc2.2mdkenterprise.img
#*******************************************
title Mandrake 260-1 enterprise hde-9-10
kernel (hd0,8)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.0-1mdkenterprise devfs=mount splash=silent
hdd=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hde11 vga=788 root=/dev/hde9
initrd (hd0,8)/boot/initrd-2.6.0-1mdkenterprise.img
#********************************************
title Windows 98 hde1
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
#***************************
title Mandrake linux-nonfb hde9-10
kernel (hd0,8)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hde9 devfs=mount splash=silent hdd=ide-scsi
hdb=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hde11
initrd (hd0,8)/boot/initrd.img
#**************************************
title floppy
root (fd0)
chainloader +1
#****************************************************************
title Suse 9.0 kernel-121-K_delft hde5/6
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-121-default root=/dev/hde5 vga=0x314
splash=silent desktop hdd=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi hddlun=0 showopts
initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd-2.4.21-121-default
#****************************************************************
title Fedora Core 1 2422-1.2115.nptl hde7/8
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ hdd=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi
rhgb
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img
#****************************************************************
title Memory Test
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/memtest.bin
#****************************************************************
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On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 09:27:06 -0500
Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Saturday 14 February 2004 05:20 am, Johan wrote:
> > On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 01:17:40 -0500
> >
> > Trey Sizemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 00:33, Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf wrote:
> > >
> > > <snip>
> > >
> > > > As far as I know, Grub should be ok with this, but don't
> > > > hold me to it.
> > >
> > > What should I say to the bootloader option when installing Mandrake?
> > > MBR?
> >
> > The MBR = yes
> >
> NO, NO, NO
>
> You want to install mandrake bootloader in partition, not on MBR. You will
> not be able to boot SuSE if you do this. You want to chainload Mandrake
> bootloader just like windows.
>
> Install Mandrake's bootloader in the root partition and then boot to linux and
> add a stanza to Grub's menu.lst kind of like the windows one
>
> title WindowsXP
> root (hd0,0)
> chainloader +1
>
> title Mandrake
> root (hd0,7) <== Put the drive partition number that you installed
> chainloader +1 Mandrake on here. Remember that 1st partition
> is zero.
> --
> /g
>
>
--
Johan
Registered Linux User #330034 .. still learning
May this be a good day for learning
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