[ale] Any GRUB experts out there?

[Mark Hurley]

I enjoyed the opportunity to install "Gentoo" while playing away from
the Debian foundation one bright morning.  And quickly had to come up
to speed on GRUB.  I agree with you (I think ;-)), it is superior to
lilo.

Not sure what you have and have not tried.  But one NICE feature of
GRUB is the auto-complete via [TAB].

type 'grub' to run it after you've set it up.

Your first task will be to install a boot record.

you can use something similar to

        root (hd0,0)            // (don't forget about [tab]
        setup (hd0)

Of course if you want a full blown example or tutorial on it, check
out...



I made a /boot/grub/menu.lst file, which supported many OS's on the
pc, sample:

default 0
timeout 30

title=My example Gentoo Linux
root (hd0,0) 
kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda3 

title=Windows NT Workstation
root (hd0,5) 
chainloader +1


(Ok so I copied and pasted  ;)  )

One last thing....when you first boot up your PC, you can opt not to
use the MENU...and select command (run command..???) I can't remember
the exact syntax.

But it will let you "navigate" (if you will) without a menu option and
pull up any partition (or OS).

Have fun!

Mark Hurley


On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 07:39:13AM -0700, Fulton Green wrote:
> And I'm not talkin' 'bout food. :)
> 
> The new version of Red Hat (7.2) now uses the GNU Grand Unified Bootloader
> (GRUB) as its default bootloader (lilo is still available). But instead of
> having RH 7.2 install it, I installed the RPM package and am now trying to
> figure out to to actually *use* the thing. In particular, I was trying to
> use a GRUBbed boot floppy to start up WinMe, which is on my hard disk's
> primary partition. But that seemed to fail. I haven't tried to load in
> Linux with it yet. This was all just this morning, mind you. If it helps
> out, I did RTFM (info pages, in this case) and followed the instructions
> for booting into DOS/Windows.
> 
> Any takers?
> 
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