Re: Selecting the last partition automatically

2009-03-05 Thread Harvey Chapman
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Harvey Chapman wrote: > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Felix Zielcke wrote: > >> Am Donnerstag, den 05.03.2009, 10:12 -0500 schrieb Harvey Chapman: >> > Is there a way to always select the last partition on a disk? I'd like >>

Re: Selecting the last partition automatically

2009-03-05 Thread Harvey Chapman
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Felix Zielcke wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 05.03.2009, 10:12 -0500 schrieb Harvey Chapman: > > Is there a way to always select the last partition on a disk? I'd like > > to boot the same menu.lst on different machines and I know that I >

Selecting the last partition automatically

2009-03-05 Thread Harvey Chapman
Is there a way to always select the last partition on a disk? I'd like to boot the same menu.lst on different machines and I know that I always want the last partition on the first disk. Is there a way to do this? root (hd0,*) or something like that? Thanks, Harvey _

System hangs on config file

2005-10-31 Thread Richard Harvey Chapman
I have a system booting off of a compact flash card (acting as a hard drive). Grub hangs while loading the config file. Specifically, it hangs after printing "GRUB loading, please wait...". System is a 1 GHz pentium M machine (http://www.ampro.com/html/EPIC_FormFactor_ReadyBoard_800.html). The CF

Re: Restoring WinXP bootloader?

2002-12-04 Thread Richard Harvey Chapman
Thank you Jason and Norman. This worked. Perhaps this should be added to the FAQ? Thanks again, R. On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Norman B. Robinson wrote: > To restore the master boot record (MBR): > 1. Boot from the Windows XP CD, press the key "R" in the setup in order > to start the restoration co