[CS-FSLUG] Dual Booting
Jerry VanBrimmer
jevb at runbox.com
Thu Feb 10 20:00:56 CST 2005
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 08:53:13PM -0500, john-thomas richards wrote:
>
> Your /boot/grub/menu.1st file probably has a section similar to the
> following:
>
> title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8
> root (hd0,1)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8 /dev/hda1 ro
> boot
>
> This would correspond to the grub boot option "Debian GNU/Linux, kernel
> 2.6.8". (Your actual boot option is most likely different.) To get
> grub to offer you a choice to boot the Win98 installation, you will need
> to add an additional entry to /boot/grub/menu.1st (that is menu.one-st,
> not the letter "l"). It will be *similar* to the following:
>
> title Windows 98
> root (hd1,0)
> makeactive
> chainloader +1
>
> Pay attention to the "root" line; grub starts numbering drives and
> partitions with 0 rather than 1. For example, my Debian section above
> is the first hard drive (hd0) and the *second* partition (hd0,1). Your
> Win98 is likely the second hard drive and first partition and would
> therefore be (hd1,0). I am not sure how you have your Win98 drive
> partitioned, however.
> --
> john-thomas
> ------
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> teacher.
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