Trying to help a local user who is having trouble bootin win from
grub, I sent the following (I thought) helpful suggestion

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From: Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: clue tech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 09:52:05 -0700
Subject: Re: [clue-tech] Add'l Info for Recovering from grub-install error

On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 16:45:03 +0000, a user <somewhere> wrote:
> My grub.conf file looks like this:

[ other snipped ]

> title Windows 98se
>         rootnoverify (hd0,0)
>         chainloader +1

I don't know what rootnoverify does; remove it: I just use

title WinXP-hda1
   root (hd0,0)
   chainloader +1

HTH,

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So a got the following reply from another user


From: another user
To: Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, clue tech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 11:37:43 -0700
Subject: Re: [clue-tech] Add'l Info for Recovering from grub-install error

Collins Richey wrote:
[...]
> I don't know what rootnoverify does; remove it: I just use

There's some helpful advice.  "I don't know what CentOS does, remove it.
 I just use Debian."


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Worth a chuckle anyway.

-- 
 Collins
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       it was the start of a new Arab world.... The Berlin Wall has fallen. 
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