topic GRUB configuration in Operating System - Linux

GRUB configuration

shyam singh bisht — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 06:22:40 GMT

Hi! everybody

I have installed Rdhat Linux 8.0 on primary master HDD .

I have windows 2k professional on Primary slave .

Now I want to have a menu at the system boot time, from which I can choose the OS of my choice.

I have added the following lines in /boot/grub/menu.lst

title windows 2k
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1

It shows the options , but doesn't boot 2k professional .

Any kind of help will be highly appreciated.

thanks & regards

Shyam

Re: GRUB configuration

Sergejs Svitnevs — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 07:25:02 GMT

If you need to boot Win from a non-first disk, try to exchange BIOS drives virtually, like this:

menu.lst
------------------
...
title windows 2k
map (hd1) (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1
makeactive
...
------------------

Regards,
Sergejs

Re: GRUB configuration

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 02:57:31 GMT

I have found the best practice is.

Have W2K running first, preferably limited to a single drive/partition.

Then install Linux, use grub as the boot loader.

It will set up and let you run W2K no problems. You can rename the entry for windows to make it clearer.

SEP

Re: GRUB configuration

renarios — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 04:12:45 GMT

Did you add the default parameter?
i.e. "default 1"

# Boot automatically after ten seconds
timeout 10

# Default OS is the second record.
default 1

# Fallback to the first record.
fallback 0

# For the girlies:
title Windows 2000
unhide (hd0,0)
hide (hd0,1)
hide (hd0,2)
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
makeactive

# Booting your favo OS:
title Linux
root (hd0,7)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17 root=/dev/hda8 video=matrox:vesa:261

Cheers,

Renarios