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On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 13:00, Ryan McLean wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> I was reading your excellent installation documentation online, and I |
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> ran into a question. Near the end you're breaking down the commands for |
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> grub, but you leave some information out that I would like to know: |
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> # Below needed only for people who dual-boot |
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> title=Windows NT Workstation |
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> root (hd0,5) |
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> chainloader +1 |
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> I'm unclear as to what the (hd0,5) are pointing to, is to say "boot of |
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> off the FAT partition located at partition 5"? Normally MS likes to |
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> reside on the primary partition of the drive, so I just want clarification |
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> on this. For instance, if I have a dual boot, MS on the primary partition |
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> and Gentoo's root at (sd0,3), then I would put root (sd0,1) under my |
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> Windows boot section, correct? And also, what does the chainloader +1 |
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> command do? Thank you fo your time, I'm an old fan of lilo, but I have |
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> been cosidering migrating to a newer bootloader :) |
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I'll take a quick stab at this: |
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First, always add 1 to grub's numbers for disk and partition. The first |
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partition of the first disk is (hd0,0). So, if your Windows is on sda1, |
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the grub parameter is (sd0,0). |
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The chainloader +1 (I think) means to start chain loading the boot |
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loader 1 sector from the start of the specified (root) partition. |
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There's some excellent grub docs at the GNU website: |
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http://www.gnu.org/manual/grub-0.90/grub.html |
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I'd definitely encourage you to move to grub. Writing the boot sector |
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once really is much nicer. I messed up a config file, putting hd(0,0) |
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instead of (hd0,0). With LILO I would've needed to find a boot disc. In |
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grub, I simply edited the boot commands from the menu and merrily went |
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on with the boot. |
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Have fun! |
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Matthew |
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