On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have 3 diff OS installed on my machine and want to use GRUB as the
> bootmanager. I have no problems with getting Mandrake and win98 to boot -
> no problems there. My third OS is a basic SuSE install - doing some
> comparison testing - but I am missing something when trying to add SuSE to
> GRUB. The SuSe root partition is /dev/hda5 and the boot partition is
> /dev/hda3. Its kernel image has the same name as the Mandrake image -
> /boot/vmlinuz. It seems that even though I specify where it should boot
> from, GRUB loads the Mandrake kernel - NOT the SuSE image. I tried
> specifiying to grab the kernel by giving the whole path, but that gave a
> syntax error. I've looked at a few How-Tos but I haven't found an example
> of loading 2 linux distros - they usually discuss windows and linux.
>
> Any ideas ? Should the two kernels have different names ? Any pointers
> would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> philomena
The syntax for specifying the HDD location of the os you want
to boot is a lot different with grub, but 'info grub' explains it
very well. Compared to other man and info pages, it gets an A+ in
my book. Have a look, I believe your questions will be answered.
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~~ Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
