On Saturday 14 February 2004 09:27 am, Greg Meyer wrote:
> On Saturday 14 February 2004 05:20 am, Johan wrote:
> > On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 01:17:40 -0500
> >
> > Trey Sizemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 00:33, Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf wrote:
> > >
> > > <snip>
> > >
> > > > As far as I know, Grub should be ok with this, but don't
> > > > hold me to it.
> > >
> > > What should I say to the bootloader option when installing Mandrake?
> > > MBR?
> >
> > The MBR = yes
>
> NO, NO, NO
>
> You want to install mandrake bootloader in partition, not on MBR. You will
> not be able to boot SuSE if you do this. You want to chainload Mandrake
> bootloader just like windows.
>
> Install Mandrake's bootloader in the root partition and then boot to linux
> and add a stanza to Grub's menu.lst kind of like the windows one
>
> title WindowsXP
> root (hd0,0)
> chainloader +1
>
> title Mandrake
> root (hd0,7) <== Put the drive partition number that you installed
> chainloader +1 Mandrake on here. Remember that 1st partition
> is zero.
As a follow up, you can make Grub boot Mandrake directly off of the MBR, but
you have to let one of the Linux distros be the Grub master so to speak.
Once you get all three booting using the chainloader, you can try booting to
Suse and then adding a stanza to boot mandrake right off of its own
partition. This is the way I do it, my Grub menu.lst
*************Begin menu.lst****************
timeout 5
color black/cyan yellow/cyan
i18n (hd0,5)/grub/messages
altconfigfile (hd0,5)/grub/menu.once
default 1
title Mandrake 9.2-update AthlonXP
kernel (hd0,5)/vmlinuz-2.4.22-18mdk root=/dev/hda9 noapic devfs=mount \
hde=ide-scsi hdg=ide-scsi acpi=off vga=791
initrd (hd0,5)/initrd-2.4.22-18mdk.img
title Mandrake 9.2-update AthlonXP Win4Lin
kernel (hd0,5)/win4lin-2.4.22-18mdk root=/dev/hda9 noapic devfs=mount \
hde=ide-scsi hdg=ide-scsi acpi=off vga=791
initrd (hd0,5)/initrd-win4lin-2.4.22-18mdk.img
title Cooker
kernel (hd1,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdc5 noapic devfs=mount hde=ide-scsi \
hdg=ide-scsi acpi=off vga=791
initrd (hd1,0)/initrd.img
title Cooker-Win4Lin
kernel (hd1,0)/win4lin-2.4.22-10mdk noapic devfs=mount hde=ide-scsi \
hdg=ide-scsi acpi=off vga=791 root=/dev/hdc5
initrd (hd1,0)/initrd-win4lin-2.4.22-10mdk.img
title Windows 2000
root (hd0,1)
chainloader +1
title Windows 98SE Light
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
title Floppy
root (fd0)
chainloader +1
title Failsafe
kernel (hd0,5)/vmlinuz-2.4.22-18mdk root=/dev/hda9 failsafe noapic \
devfs=nomount hde=ide-scsi acpi=off
initrd (hd0,5)/initrd-2.4.22-18mdk.img
**************end menu.lst***************
Note that I use a separate /boot partition, so if you don't, your entries for
the kernel image must be like this:
kernel (hd0,5)/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-18mdk root=/dev/hda9 noapic devfs=mount
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/g
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