I am "assuming" that I lose the "z" and spell it correctly? After all
when I address bill gates it is in all lower case! ;) I hate to have to
be so friggin' proper!
Eric "Shubes" wrote:
> Michael Sammartano wrote:
>
>> I have just successfully added a secong hard drive to my machine in
>> which I installed winXP to a 5GB partition to play 1 stupid game.
>> Trouble is I do not know how to get GRUB to see it to boot from it. I
>> am using SuSE 9.1 and I tried to use YaST and the boot loader config
>> tool, but it will not recognize chainloader +1 for some reason.
>> Here is my menu.lst contents:
>>
>> # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Fri Mar 18 17:39:13 2005
>>
>>
>> color white/blue black/light-gray
>> default 0
>> timeout 8
>>
>> ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
>> title Linux
>> kernel (hd0,3)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda4 vga=0x31a splash=silent
>> desktop resume=/dev/hdb2 showopts
>> initrd (hd0,3)/boot/initrd
>>
>> ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name:
>> Windows###
>> title Windows
>> root (hd1,0)
>> ###*** I think this is the culprit, but I am unsure***###
>> kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1
>>
>> ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name:
>> floppy###
>> title Floppy
>> root (fd0)
>> chainloader +1
>>
>> ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name:
>> failsafe###
>> title Failsafe
>> kernel (hd0,3)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda4 showopts ide=nodma
>> apm=off acpi=off vga=normal noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 3
>>
>> Please help!
>>
>> Mike
>
> You're on the right track, Mike (re: culprit comment).
>
> For the XP portion of your menu.lst file, try:
> # windoze
> title Windoze XP
> rootnoverify (hd1,0)
> chainloader +1
> # /windoze
> This is presuming that XP is on the first partition of your second
> drive, what would be /dev/hdb1 to linux.
>
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