Mark Grieveson wrote:
>>
>> Mark Grieveson wrote:
>>
>> > Hello. I installed ms-dos, and then shrank it, and subsequently
>> > installed Debian in its own partition. Debian's grub, however, did not
>> > see ms-dos as an operating system, and, therefore, did not set up a
>> > menu
>> > choice for it. How do I go about setting up a menu choice for it in
>> > grub?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Mark
>>
>> As root, edit your /boot/grub/menu.lst file. Add something like this:
>>
>> title MS-DOS
>> root (hd0,0)
>> makeactive
>> chainloader +1
>>
>> Change (hd0,0) to something else if dos isn't on the first partition
>> (hda1).
>>
>> Roby
> I tried this, and it stated something like that ext3 could not be
> found. I then changed root to be (hd0,2). It gave me a more general
> error. I'm not sure what to try now.
Start up Debian. Then, as root (important!!) start grub. Then type:
"root (hd0," without the quotes at the grub prompt. Then press tab.
On this box, I get:
GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB
lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
completions of a device/filename. ]
grub> root (hd0,
Possible partitions are:
Partition num: 0, Filesystem type is fat, partition type 0x6
Partition num: 3, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x17
Partition num: 4, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x82
Partition num: 5, Filesystem type is fat, partition type 0x6
Partition num: 6, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
Partition num: 7, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
Partition num: 8, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
grub> quit
Partition 0 is where my ms-dos drive C: (type fat, 0x6) and the other
fat, 0x6 is what DOS knows as drive D:. So my grub entry for DOS on
hda1 is root (hd0,0). Yours is apparently somewhere else ... or maybe
overwritten during a zealous install.
Another way to sort this out is fdisk -l as root (that's letter "l").
Like so:
Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 49 393561 6 FAT16
/dev/hda2 50 4594 36507712+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda4 8756 9729 7823655 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda5 50 85 289138+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6 86 316 1855476 6 FAT16
/dev/hda7 317 924 4883728+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 925 4571 29294496 83 Linux
/dev/hda9 4572 4594 184716 83 Linux
Better now?
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