[wellylug] Multi O/S boot issue

Peter Jones PeterJ at indeserve.co.nz
Thu Nov 7 11:58:54 NZDT 2002


30 minutes between query and response from the developer. Can't see
Microsoft equalling that anytime soon.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David McNab [mailto:david at rebirthing.co.nz]
> Sent: Thursday, 7 November 2002 11:41
> To: wellylug at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [wellylug] Multi O/S boot issue
> 
> 
> On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 11:10:33 +1300
> Paul Ellen <Paul.Ellen at indeserve.co.nz> wrote:
> > I have a Mandrake / WindowsXP multi boot pc and have done an install
> > to hard drive of Knoppix.
> 
> All my booting problems went away permanently when I switched 
> from LILO
> to GRUB.
> 
> It felt somewhat like in the early '80s, when I switched from 
> Assembler
> to C - painful and unfamiliar for a very short time, but blissful
> thereafter.
> 
> There's an excellent tutorial on GRUB - short and to the point, in a
> section of the Gentoo installation manual. It explains 
> beautifully in a
> non-gentoo-specific way, and will get you set up. See:
> 
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/build.html#doc_chap16_sect7
> 
> The splendour of GRUB is that you only have to write out the MBR once,
> and all the MBR knows is which partition to look in to find its config
> file.
> 
> Thereafter, you only need to change the config file - no need to keep
> rewriting the MBR each time you change the boot setup. This 
> makes system
> rescue a dream.
> 
> My own machine boots quite happily into Debian, Knoppix and Win2k from
> GRUB. FYI, here's my GRUB config (note that my Win2k disk is on
> /dev/hdc1). Note that (hd0) = /dev/hda, (hd0,1) = /dev/hda1, etc. In
> general, (hdi,j) means the 'i'th actual hard disk, and the 'j'th
> actual partition, counting from zero.
> 
> default 0
> timeout 4
> 
> title=Debian 2.4.19 desktop
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19 root=/dev/hda2 hdd=ide-scsi
> 
> title=knoppix
> root (hd1,5)
> kernel (hd1,5)/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19-xfs root=/dev/hdc6 lang=en
> 
> title=W2k
> map (hd0) (hd1)
> map (hd1) (hd0)
> root (hd1,0)
> chainloader +1
> makeactive
> boot
> 
> title=memtest
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /boot/memtest86.bin root=/dev/hda2
> 
> > 	Any suggestions gratefully appreciated 
> 
> Switch to GRUB.
> 
> Cheers
> David
> 
>   .-.   Wellington
>   /V\   Linux
>  // \\  Users       
> /(   )\ Group
>  ^^-^^
>         http://wlug.paradise.net.nz/
> 
> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
> wellylug-unsubscribe at egroups.com
>   
> 
> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to 
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ 


  .-.   Wellington
  /V\   Linux
 // \\  Users       
/(   )\ Group
 ^^-^^
        http://wlug.paradise.net.nz/

To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
wellylug-unsubscribe at egroups.com
  

Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ 





More information about the wellylug mailing list