Hi to Mark Haney, This is a posting I did on another list - multiboot on multiple drives and I use it. Maybe this this will help Enjoy Johan ************************* ----- Original Message ----- From: "Johan Scheepers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mandrake-Newbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003 2:06 PM Subject: Multiboot using BRUB
> 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
