Re: [gentoo-user] booting slave; specify which device and how?

[THUFIR HAWAT]

On 8/15/06, Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org> wrote:
> On 8/15/06, THUFIR HAWAT <hawat.thufir@×××××.com> wrote:
> > There are two hard drives.  The slave has gentoo and win2k.  GRUB
> > seems to work fine, windows boots fine.
>
> IDE (or rather PATA now) devices on linux are named in order of the
> channel then master/slave device, so:
>
> hda: master on first PATA channel
> hdb: slave on first PATA  channel
[...]

Understood, thanks.

I seem to have mucked things up a tad by formatting hda so that I
can't boot windows at the moment.

I'm thinking about how to edit grub.conf at the moment...

knoppix@2[grub]$
knoppix@2[grub]$
knoppix@2[grub]$
knoppix@2[grub]$
knoppix@2[grub]$ cat grub.conf.sample -n
     1  #
     2  # Sample boot menu configuration file
     3  #
     4
     5  # Boot automatically after 30 secs.
     6  timeout 30
     7
     8  # By default, boot the first entry.
     9  default 0
    10
    11  # Fallback to the second entry.
    12  fallback 1
    13
    14  # For booting GNU/Hurd
    15  title  GNU/Hurd
    16  root   (hd0,0)
    17  kernel /boot/gnumach.gz root=hd0s1
    18  module /boot/serverboot.gz
    19
    20  # For booting GNU/Linux
    21  title  GNU/Linux
    22  root (hd1,0)
    23  kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1
    24  #initrd /initrd.img
    25
    26  # For booting GNU/kFreeBSD
    27  title  GNU/kFreeBSD
    28  root   (hd0,2,a)
    29  kernel /boot/loader.gz
    30
    31  # For booting GNU/kNetBSD
    32  title  GNU/kNetBSD
    33  root   (hd0,2,a)
    34  kernel --type=netbsd /boot/knetbsd.gz
    35
    36  # For booting Mach (getting kernel from floppy)
    37  title  Utah Mach4 multiboot
    38  root   (hd0,2)
    39  pause  Insert the diskette now!!
    40  kernel (fd0)/boot/kernel root=hd0s3
    41  module (fd0)/boot/bootstrap
    42
    43  # For booting FreeBSD
    44  title  FreeBSD
    45  root   (hd0,2,a)
    46  kernel /boot/loader
    47
    48  # For booting NetBSD
    49  title  NetBSD
    50  root   (hd0,2,a)
    51  kernel --type=netbsd /netbsd
    52
    53  # For booting OpenBSD
    54  title  OpenBSD
    55  root   (hd0,2,a)
    56  kernel --type=netbsd /bsd
    57
    58  # For booting OS/2
    59  title OS/2
    60  root  (hd0,1)
    61  makeactive
    62  # chainload OS/2 bootloader from the first sector
    63  chainloader +1
    64  # This is similar to "chainload", but loads a specific file
    65  #chainloader /boot/chain.os2
    66
    67  # For booting Windows NT or Windows95
    68  title Windows NT / Windows 95 boot menu
    69  rootnoverify (hd0,0)
    70  makeactive
    71  chainloader  +1
    72  # For loading DOS if Windows NT is installed
    73  # chainload /bootsect.dos
    74
    75  # For installing GRUB into the hard disk
    76  title Install GRUB into the hard disk
    77  root    (hd0,0)
    78  setup   (hd0)
    79
    80  # Change the colors.
    81  title Change the colors
    82  color light-green/brown blink-red/blue
knoppix@2[grub]$ cat grub.conf -n
     1  default 0
     2  timeout 30
     3  splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
     4  title=Gentoo Linux
     5  root (hd0,1)
     6  kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0
init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda4
     7  initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5
     8
     9  title Windows
    10            rootnoverify (hd0,0)
    11            chainloader +1
    12
knoppix@2[grub]$ pwd
/media/hdb2/boot/grub
knoppix@2[grub]$ whoami
knoppix
knoppix@2[grub]$ date
Tue Aug 15 21:32:33 EDT 2006
knoppix@2[grub]$
knoppix@2[grub]$
knoppix@2[grub]$
knoppix@2[grub]$
knoppix@2[grub]$






-Thufir
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