[wellylug] Multi-Boot

[David McNab]

On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 10:00, Paul Ellen wrote:
> Is anyone able to give a  run down on multi boot configs.

Maybe this info should go into a FAQ section in the WellyLUG site.
The question has come up a few times on this list.

Read a *short* section of the Gentoo installation manual.
It's only one screen page, and very clear in its explanations of how to set up 
GRUB for multi-boot loading.

The gist of it is, you have to choose one of your ext2 (linux) partitions to 
be where a file called 'menu.lst' resides.

Now, read the section in the Gentoo manual:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/build.xml#doc_chap16_sect7

Lastly, here's my own GRUB config file, with comments:

default 0
timeout 4

# this is my main bootup
# (hd0,0) corresponds to /dev/hda1
title=Debian 2.4.19 desktop
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19 root=/dev/hda2 hdd=ide-scsi

# I use this as a 'rescue' partition if anything goes hairy with
# my main partition. Note - (hd1,5) corresponds to /dev/hdc6
# because I don't have any hard disks installed in /dev/hdb
title=knoppix
root (hd1,5)
kernel (hd1,5)/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19-xfs root=/dev/hdc6 lang=en

# I never boot this anymore - tempted to remove it
# the two 'map' statements swap my disks, to fool w--dows into
# thinking it's on the first disk
# If you use w--dows, you either have to do this, or put it on
# the first partition of your first disk (in which case you won't need
# the 'map' statements)
title=W2k
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
root (hd1,0)
chainloader +1
makeactive
boot

# very handy little prog which thrash-tests memory
title=memtest
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/memtest86.bin root=/dev/hda2


I truly hope this helps
Cheers
David



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> > From:	Rob Giltrap - Ubiety Group [SMTP:rob at ubietygroup.com]
> > Sent:	Monday, 11 November 2002 09:54
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> > Subject:	[wellylug] Tonights Meeting
> >
> > Anything set for tonight?
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> > Centurion Computer Technology Limited wrote:
> > >Our next meeting will be on the 11th of November.
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> > >Is there anything we want to look at in particular, or does anybody want
> > >to do a presentation?
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> > >Will this be the last meeting for the year, or shall we have a December
> > >meeting as well?
> > >
> > >Any thoughts?
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> > >Regards,
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