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[Alvin Smith]

On Wednesday 09 February 2005 08:53 pm, john-thomas richards wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 08:21:55PM -0500, Christopher Rose wrote:
> > This is somethings I'd rather not ask about, however, given I preparing
> > to re-enter school, I feel I must. I am preparing to begin taking classes
> > to earn a BS in IT, however the school only uses windows. I had to
> > scrounge up up an old 1.2GB drive and dust off (literally) an old copy of
> > win98 (not even win98se, just win98). Now then, how do I get my computer
> > to dual boot using Grub so that I do not have to constantly swap out hard
> > drives for the next two years? Please make it simple. I have already
> > learned that hooking up the win98 drive to the ide slave cable doesn't
> > work. I do know that the drive is /dev/hdb1. How do I get Grub to ask if
> > I want hd root=/dev/hda1 or hd root=/dev/hb1?
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Your /boot/grub/menu.1st file probably has a section similar to the
> following:

I think that should read:

/menu.lst  (LST)
not
/menu.1st (1ST)

>
> 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.

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peace,
Alvin Smith
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