grub for triple boot

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Thu Aug 24 14:05:44 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 07:11 +0100, Thufir wrote:
> he slave hard drive on my box is dual boot windows/linux.  The master 
> also has linux.  This makes for three OS's.  Only the master hard
> drive is 
> booting at the moment, which I'd like to fix.  All data has been
> backed 
> up.
> 
> When I attempt to boot windows I get an excerpt
> from /boot/grub/grub.conf 
> as follows:
> 
>    title Other
>            rootnoverify (hd1,0)
>            chainloader +1
> 
> 
> Other meaning windows (which I should change).  Prior to installing
> linux 
> to the master, windows on the slave booted fine.  However, linux on
> the 
> slave didn't boot.  To expedite things I just went ahead and
> installed 
> linux on the master, as that seemed easiest at the time.
> 
> I know that grub can be edited, but I don't how it should be changed.
> 
> Perhaps this is related to the MBR on hdb?  I don't mind
> re-installing 
> windows to hdb, I wanted to repartition anyhow.
> 
> 
> 
> [root at arrakis ~]#
> [root at arrakis ~]#
> [root at arrakis ~]# mount -t auto -r /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win2k/
> [root at arrakis ~]#
> [root at arrakis ~]# mount -t auto -r /dev/hdb4 /mnt/gentoo/lso thr
> [root at arrakis ~]#
Well your grub.conf looks ok. The MBR on hdb is not used. However, I am
concerned about the mount commands above. Where did the gentoo come
from? What exactly happens if you choose to boot Other in the grub menu?
-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>




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