Tweaking GRUB
I would like to have W98, FC3 and Slackware 10.1 on a single hard drive. W98 would occupy a primary partition, and FC3 and Slack partitions would all be resident in separate logical partitions within an extended partition.
When I install FC3, it overwrites the MBR with GRUB. How do I go about editing GRUB such that I can select any of the three operating systems to boot? |
use VI (or any editor) and open /boot/grub/grub.conf. If that life doesn't exist, then it is likely called /boot/grub/menu.lst
Since you didn't post your partition scheme, what I type probably won't work but should give you a rough outline. The entries would look something like this: title WIN98 rootnoverify (hd0,1) makeactive chainloader +1 title FC3 root (hd0,2) kernel /kernel-2.6.10 real_root=/dev/hda3 title Slack 10.1 root (hd0,3) kernel /kernel-2.6.10 real_root=/dev/hda4 |
musicman,
I appreciate the pointers. Give me an example of what you mean by a partition scheme, and I will gladly post mine. |
partition scheme
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Code:
fdisk -l if you have windows on 1st partition, then the win menu entry would look like this: Code:
title WIN98 Code:
title Slack 10.1 and it is located at /kernel-2.6.10. Hope this helps! |
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