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title=Gentoo Linux 2006
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/hda7
So all I need is the name of the kernel and it should work also I tried the SUSE bootloader way which does it automatically but it doesn't work so I'll have to try it manually.
# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Mon May 29 16:49:20 EDT 2006
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gfxmenu (hd0,5)/boot/message
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title SUSE Linux 10.1
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 vga=0x31a resume=/dev/hda5 splash=silent showopts
initrd /boot/initrd
title Gentoo Linux 2006
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/hda7 vga=791
initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5
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title Windows
chainloader (hd0,1)+1
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title Floppy
chainloader (fd0)+1
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title Failsafe -- SUSE Linux 10.1
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3
initrd /boot/initrd
we've no idea if it's right or not, we don't know anything about your partitioning system etc... syntactically it looks ok, but no idea if it will work or not.
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