bootloader
Walt
racerpup2 at comcast.net
Sat Oct 18 15:25:27 UTC 2003
Gerry Tool wrote:
>On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 09:00, Walt wrote:
>
>
>>Gerry Tool wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 08:10, Walt Frampus wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>I need to change my bootloader, I have been looking in the menu's for
>>>>something that would allow me to do so and haven't seen anything. Could
>>>>someone please tell me where to look???
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Do you want to change programs, i.e., from Grub to Lilo, or are you just
>>>wanting to change the parameters to grub?
>>>
>>>Gerry
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>>I am actually duel booting with winxp (for now) I need to see the
>>setting it has for the win drive
>>
>>
>
>You haven't specified which boot loader you are using, so I will assume
>it is GRUB. You can see what GRUB is using by editing /etc/grub.conf.
>
>An example of mine is shown below. (note some lines are broken by the
>e-mail client.) I have four boot options to various systems listed.
>===============================================
>
># grub.conf generated by anaconda
>#
># Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this
>file
># NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that
># all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
>#root (hd0,7)
># kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda8
># initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
>#boot=/dev/hda
>default=0
>timeout=10
>splashimage=(hd0,10)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-20.9)
> root (hd0,7)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-20.9 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi
>hdd=ide-scsi ide0=ata66 idebus=66
> initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-20.9.img
>title Windows XP
> rootnoverify (hd0,0)
> chainloader +1
>title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2096.nptl)
> root (hd0,10)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2096.nptl ro root=LABEL=/1
>hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi ide0=ata66 idebus=66
> initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2096.nptl.img
>title Red Hat Linux 8 for Dummies (2.4.20-20.8)
> root (hd0,4)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-20.8 ro root=LABEL=/12 hdc=ide-scsi
>hdd=ide-scsi ide0=ata66 idebus=66
> initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-20.8.img
>
>============================
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Gerry
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thank you, thank-you thank you!!! this is what i needed
Walt
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