Hehe.
Actually, you can spell it any way you like. It's just a description
that shows up on the menu. Nothing functional to it.
Michael Sammartano wrote:
> 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.
>>
>
--
-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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