that's good to know... :) thanx for clearing up the confusion!!! :) ~Erin
--- Stuart Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 22:30, Erin S. wrote: > > you need to change the default to point to whichever one you > want... > > in my case, i default to red hat, so where it says "root (hd0,0)", > i > > take the 0 from there (i think... correct me if i'm wrong about > > that)... > > There's actually no relationship between (hd0,0) and default=# > > The (hd0,0) simply translates to /dev/hda1 in normal linux speak. > [hd0 -> hda, 0 -> 1] This simply specifies the partition the OS is > on. > > The default=0 refers to the 1st entry in the boot menu list. Like > good > computer scientists, they're indexing from zero instead of one. You > can > have multiple kernels on the same partition and choose from them when > you boot. What matters is that each would have a boot menu entry. > > -- > Stuart Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED], AIM:StuartMJansen> > > "Because we frequently suffer from the scourge of information > pollution, > we find it hard to imagine its even deadlier opposite – information > starvation. I get very annoyed when I hear arguments – usually from > those who have been educated beyond their intelligence – about the > virtues of keeping happy, backwards people in ignorance." > -- Arthur C. Clarke > > ATTACHMENT part 1.2 application/pgp-signature name=signature.asc > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies > ===== http://www.userfriendly.org __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
