[ale] Any GRUB experts out there?

[Mark Hurley]

OOPS....  Insert link where it was missing...find it at IBM's site

http://www-105.ibm.com/developerworks/education.nsf/linux-onlinecourse-bytitle/0F1731DC664023B7862569D0005C44AF?OpenDocument

Simple and straight forward....you will still be able to skip pages
however.

Expert in GRUB?  Is that a code on the driving license now? That's why
it takes so long to get our licensees!

;)

Mark

On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 08:56:20PM -0400, Mark Hurley wrote:
> I enjoyed the opportunity to install "Gentoo" while playing away from
> the Debian foundation one bright morning.  And quickly had to come up
> to speed on GRUB.  I agree with you (I think ;-)), it is superior to
> lilo.
> 
> Not sure what you have and have not tried.  But one NICE feature of
> GRUB is the auto-complete via [TAB].
> 
> type 'grub' to run it after you've set it up.
> 
> Your first task will be to install a boot record.
> 
> you can use something similar to
> 
>         root (hd0,0)            // (don't forget about [tab]
>         setup (hd0)
> 
> Of course if you want a full blown example or tutorial on it, check
> out...
> 
> 
> 
> I made a /boot/grub/menu.lst file, which supported many OS's on the
> pc, sample:
> 
> default 0
> timeout 30
> 
> title=My example Gentoo Linux
> root (hd0,0) 
> kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda3 
> 
> title=Windows NT Workstation
> root (hd0,5) 
> chainloader +1
> 
> 
> (Ok so I copied and pasted  ;)  )
> 
> One last thing....when you first boot up your PC, you can opt not to
> use the MENU...and select command (run command..???) I can't remember
> the exact syntax.
> 
> But it will let you "navigate" (if you will) without a menu option and
> pull up any partition (or OS).
> 
> Have fun!
> 
> Mark Hurley
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 07:39:13AM -0700, Fulton Green wrote:
> > And I'm not talkin' 'bout food. :)
> > 
> > The new version of Red Hat (7.2) now uses the GNU Grand Unified Bootloader
> > (GRUB) as its default bootloader (lilo is still available). But instead of
> > having RH 7.2 install it, I installed the RPM package and am now trying to
> > figure out to to actually *use* the thing. In particular, I was trying to
> > use a GRUBbed boot floppy to start up WinMe, which is on my hard disk's
> > primary partition. But that seemed to fail. I haven't tried to load in
> > Linux with it yet. This was all just this morning, mind you. If it helps
> > out, I did RTFM (info pages, in this case) and followed the instructions
> > for booting into DOS/Windows.
> > 
> > Any takers?
> > 
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