On Wednesday 09 February 2005 08:14 pm, Ted Hilts wrote:
Ted's Answer: """Yes""" for the boot aspect. And if so simple please give me a "working example" for 3 machines (one Windoze, one dual boot with Linux and Windoze, and one dual boot for 2 differen't linux kernels) and I can take it from there for 15 machines. I need to get this part done first. I would really appreciate a working example or a stretch from a working example.
I use Acronis for loading most of my machines but I can give you an example that is close: The below is my hand-edited menu.lst for grub on one machine. I don't use Yast for menu configuration. I have added comments that start with +++ on a line Note that every entry points to drives, partitions, and filenames. And it's basically that simple. A little perusal should show you what is going on. The only 'funny' think about it is that partition numbers and hard drive numbers start with zero and count up. Simple............ ====================================================== +++ (normal grub stuff) color white/blue black/light-gray default 0 timeout 35 gfxmenu (hd0,6)/message +++ boot the most recent 9.2 kernel title SUSE LINUX 2.6.8-24.11 kernel (hd0,6)/vmlinuz-2.6.8-24.11-default root=/dev/sda6 vga=0x031a selinux=0 splash=silent resume=/dev/sda5 desktop elevator=as showopts initrd (hd0,6)/initrd-2.6.8-24.11-default +++ boot a test kernel on 9.2 One I compiled title SUSE LINUX 9.2 (TST)) kernel (hd0,6)/vmlinuz.suse92tst root=/dev/sda6 vga=0x31a selinux=0 splash=silent resume=/dev/sda5 desktop elevator=as showopts initrd (hd0,6)/initrd.suse92tst +++ Another test kernel title <<9.1>>-2.6.9nonsmp kernel (hd0,7)/vmlinuz.269nonsmp root=/dev/sda12 vga=0x31a +++ And yet another title <<9.1>>-2.6.9moxasmp kernel (hd0,7)/vmlinuz.269smp root=/dev/sda12 vga=0x31a +++ Boot SuSE 9.1 (still on my system) title <<9.1>>-2.6.9nonsmp kernel (hd0,7)/vmlinuz.269nonsmp root=/dev/sda13 vga=0x31a +++ Boot windows. title Windows XP root (hd0,1) chainloader +1 +++ Original failsafe boot for 9.2 title Failsafe -- SUSE LINUX 9.2 kernel (hd0,6)/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda6 showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off vga=normal noresume selinux=0 barrier=off nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 3 initrd (hd0,6)/initrd +++ Boot the memory test program title Memory Test kernel (hd0,6)/memtest.bin