On Friday 26 December 2003 09:50 am, Russ wrote: > Hi All, > > I posted before but this is sort of an update. Still need help. > > I am trying to get Grub to boot all the OS's I have installed. It appears > to be a tricky thing to accomplish. > > Here is what I did: > > New Dell 4600 (3ghz, 512ram, 80gig HD) with XP Home installed. I added a > 160 gig HD and made it master and the 80 a slave (XP has the whole 80gig > drive). > > On the 160 I put Win98se on the first 40, then swap, then SuSE and finally > Mandrake. > > Both SuSE and Mandrake are in their own single partition (I did not > separate / and /Home). > > Steps; > > I installed Win98se, then I installed SuSE. The Win98 drive did not show up > arigionally in Grub but I edited it and it worked fine then. My XP drive > did show up but Grub will not boot it because it does not recognise the > file system (is there a workaround for this?). > > I then installed Mandrake 9.2 and told it to skip the boot loader. Went > back into SuSE and edited Grub again but no dice. > > Here is what I have: > > =============================== > # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Fri Dec 26 06:12:33 2003 > > > gfxmenu (hd0,2)/boot/message > timeout 8 > default 0 > > ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: SuSE### > title SuSE > kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 vga=0x317 splash=silent > desktop > hdd=ide-scsi hddlun=0 showopts > initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd > > ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: > Mandrake### > title Mandrake > kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 vga=0x317 splash=silent > desktop > hdd=ide-scsi hddlun=0 showopts > initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd > > ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: > XP_Home### > title XP_Home > root (hd1,0) > chainloader +1 > makeactive > > ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: > Win98se### > title Win98se > root (hd0,0) > chainloader +1 > makeactive > > ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: > Floppy### > title Floppy > root (fd0) > chainloader +1 > > ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: > Failsafe### > title Failsafe > kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 vga=normal showopts > ide=nodma > apm=off acpi=off nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 3 > initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd > =============================== > > Anyone know what I am doing wrong? > > Here are the partitions: > > hda1 FAT32 Win98se > hda2 swap > hda3 SuSE > hda4 extended > hda5 Mandrake > > hdb1 XP Home NTFS > > Thanks > Russ
Change the Mandrake line to vga=normal and see if it works. I'm not sure what the problem is. Jim -- 10:01:01 up 15 days, 1:18, 1 user, load average: 0.69, 0.43, 0.27 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Running Mandrake 9.2 - Linux - because life is too short for reboots... Registered Linux User: 181038 -- http://counter.li.org
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