I have a machine with w2000 on a PATA disk and SuSE on a SATA disk. I set SuSE up by configuring the BIOS to show the SATA disk as the first drive in 'legacy' mode. I now want to set it up so I can multiple boot. FWIW, it's an Intel D875PBZ m/b and there's no floppy. I can boot w2000 and also knoppix which is on the same disk using the w2000 loader. I've now set the BIOS to 'enhanced' mode so that all the drives show under knoppix as: hda - PATA 1 pri - w2000 on first partition, knoppix on 3rd hdb - PATA 1 sec - no device hdc - PATA 2 pri - DVD drive hdd - PATA 2 sec - no device hde - SATA 1 - suse 8.2 + Mantel kernel on 3rd partition hdf - ? hdg - SATA 2 - presently unused hdh - ? I'm now trying to configure grub to be chain-loaded by the w2000 loader to boot SuSE, but it's the first time I've used grub and my brain is frying. So far I copied grub ?stage1? from the suse partition, put it in the w2000 root directory and put a line in boot.ini that calls it. When I choose it at boot time, grub starts but doesn't get anywhere. This doesn't surprise me because it has no idea of which disk to look at. So the questions I think I should ask are: - how do I tell grub where to discover it's menu.lst file? Can it find it from the SuSE disk or do I put it somewhere on the w2000 disk? - what is grub's name for the disk/partition? Is it just (hd4,2)? But perhaps there's a better/right way to configure it. Thanks, Dave
Dave Howorth wrote:
I now want to set it up so I can multiple boot. <snip> So the questions I think I should ask are: - how do I tell grub where to discover it's menu.lst file? Can it find it from the SuSE disk or do I put it somewhere on the w2000 disk? - what is grub's name for the disk/partition? Is it just (hd4,2)?
In case it helps anybody, I've discovered the answers to these questions by trial and error: - I don't know the full answer to the first question, but a sufficient answer was to install grub on the knoppix partition on the first, windows, disk. - In my case anyway, grub maps: hd0 /dev/hda hd1 /dev/hde hd2 /dev/hdg Cheers, Dave
On Monday 15 September 2003 8:27 am, Dave Howorth wrote:
Dave Howorth wrote:
I now want to set it up so I can multiple boot.
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So the questions I think I should ask are: - how do I tell grub where to discover it's menu.lst file? Can it find it from the SuSE disk or do I put it somewhere on the w2000 disk? - what is grub's name for the disk/partition? Is it just (hd4,2)?
In case it helps anybody, I've discovered the answers to these questions by trial and error:
- I don't know the full answer to the first question, but a sufficient answer was to install grub on the knoppix partition on the first, windows, disk.
grub is told where it's menu list is (and a lot of its other parts) by the grub install command. grub partitions are as you show above, a number following the HD designation. Therefore, partition /dev/hda3 would be (HD0,2) (again referencing from 0) and /dev/hde2 would be (in your case apparently) (HD1,1)
- In my case anyway, grub maps: hd0 /dev/hda hd1 /dev/hde hd2 /dev/hdg
Cheers, Dave
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