[PLUG] GRUB question
Robert Kopp
iconoklastic at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 9 13:56:02 UTC 2004
Mandrake and Win XP are now installed on my system and
booted by System Commander, but my attempt to add SuSE
has been frustrating. SuSE installed GRUB in the MBR,
but this hosed System Commander. Before doing anything
about this, I verified that SuSE was working.
I then inserted the XP boot disk and restored the MBR.
System Commander rejuvenates itself automatically when
this was done. However, it would not add SuSE,
complaining that it was defective.
Two possibilities occurred to me, both using
grub-install:
1. Put GRUB in SuSE's root partition and hope that
System Commander likes that better.
grub-install /dev/hda9
2. Put it back into the boot sector
grub-install /dev/hda
In that case menu.lst needs to be modified to find the
other OS; and perhaps Windows won't boot. (System
Commander would no longer be the boot selector in that
case.)
I think #1 is probably the best alternative...right?
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Robert "Tim" Kopp
http://analytic.tripod.com/
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