Re: Grub configuration

Is PartitionMagic really needed? I am not familiar with many Linux
distros, but Mandrake's InstallDrake allows you to create and resize
partitions fairly simply and easily.

Lee

Paul Dickson wrote:

>On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:28:29 -0700 (PDT), Stephen Wiebelhaus wrote:
>
>
>
>>I'm setting up a system to dual boot WinXP and Linux. Linux is
>>installed on the secondary hard drive, which is a removable
>>drive(problem). I can't get either the WinXp boot loader to work, or
>>grub.
>>
>>
>
>Simple fix, although expensive: Purchase PartitionMagic and use it to
>create a 100 MB partition (on an old machine, but this a the beginning of
>the fixed HD, newer machines can have this anywhere). Copy /boot to this
>partition and update GRUB's config file to search for the kernel on this
>partition ("root(hd0,0)": this "root" is the /boot mount point).
>

>    -Paul

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