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Author: Eric \"Shubes\"
Date:  
To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: GRUB
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.


-- 
-Eric 'shubes'
"There is no such thing as the People;
  it is a collectivist myth.
  There are only individual citizens
  with individual wills
  and individual purposes."
-William E. Simon (1927-2000),
     Secretary of the Treasury (1974-1977)
  "A Time For Truth" (1978), pg. 237



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