   | Distinguished Member with 2,835 posts. | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Newcastle Experience: A Linux user gone nuts on multi-boot | | A grub menu booting 100+ systems of Dos, Windows, Linux, BSD and Solaris As I promised this is menu showing how the 100+ systems.
Explanation is given in this site Code: # Grub menu booting 103 systems out of 144 partitions
color white/blue black/light-gray
default 0
timeout 1000
# Disk hda has 60 partitions fully populated 56 are bootable systems
title DOS 6.22 @ hda1
unhide (hd0,0)
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
# hda2 is the extended partition and has no storage space itself
title Empty @ hda3
root (hd0,2)
chainloader +1
title Empty @ hda4
root (hd0,3)
chainloader +1
# hda5 is a swap partition common to all Linux in the box
title Puppy 1.0.6 @ hda6
root (hd0,5)
chainloader +1
title Arch 0.71 @ hda7
root (hd0,6)
chainloader +1
title Mandrake 9.2 @ hda8
root (hd0,7)
chainloader +1
title Suse 9.1 pro @ hda9
root (hd0,8)
chainloader +1
title eLive 0.3 @ hda10
root (hd0,9)
chainloader +1
title Red Hat 9 @ hda11
root (hd0,10)
chainloader +1
title Lycoris 4 @ hda12
root (hd0,11)
chainloader +1
title Libranet 2.8.1 @ hda13
root (hd0,12)
chainloader +1
title Mandrake 10 @hda14
root (hd0,13)
chainloader +1
title Debian Woody @ hda15
root (hd0,14)
chainloader +1
title Yoper 2.0.0 @ hda16
root (hd0,15)
chainloader +1
title Knoppix 3.6 @ hda17
root (hd0,16)
chainloader +1
title Bufflo 1.5 @ hda18
root (hd0,17)
chainloader +1
title Kanotix 2004.9 @ hda19
root (hd0,18)
chainloader +1
title Kalango 3.2 @ hda20
root (hd0,19)
chainloader +1
title Blax 30001 @ hda21
root (hd0,20)
chainloader +1
title Fedora Core 4 @ hda22
root (hd0,21)
chainloader +1
title Debian Sarge (booted directly because high partitions not supported) in hda23
root (hd0,22)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-386 root=/dev/hda23 ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-2-386
title Red Flag 4.1 @ hda24
root (hd0,23)
chainloader +1
title Linare prof Edition 2 @ hda25
root (hd0,24)
chainloader +1
title Tiny Sofa 2.0 @ hda26
root (hd0,25)
chainloader +1
title Slackware 10.0 @ hda27
root (hd0,26)
chainloader +1
title Xandros 201 @ hda28
root (hd0,27)
chainloader +1
title Vine 3.2 @ hda29
root (hd0,28)
chainloader +1
title Specifix 0.15 @ hda30
root (hd0,29)
chainloader +1
title Ubunto 5.04 @ hda31
root (hd0,30)
chainloader +1
title PCLinuxOS 9.1 @ hda32
root (hd0,31)
chainloader +1
# Here is the approximate 137Gb barrier in the hard disk hda
title Asian Linux @ hda33
root (hd0,32)
chainloader +1
title Ubuntu 6.04 Dapper (by direct boot) @ hda34
root (hd0,33)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-8-386 root=/dev/hda34 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-8-386
title Wolvix 1.0.4 @ hda35
root (hd0,34)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz rw root=/dev/hda35
title Mepis 3.4.2 rc1 (by direct booting) @ hda36
root (hd0,35)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-1-586tsc root=/dev/hda36 nomce quiet splash=verbose vga=791
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.12-1-586tsc
title TurboLinux V7 @ hda37 (boot with Slackware 10 kernel in hda27 +rw)
root (hd0,36)
kernel (hd0,26)/boot/vmlinuz rw root=/dev/hda37
title Slampp 1.1 @ hda38
root (hd0,37)
chainloader +1
title Slax 5.0.4 @ hda39
root (hd0,38)
chainloader +1
title PCLinuxOS 0.92 @ hda40
root (hd0,39)
chainloader +1
title Sam 1.1 @ hda41
root (hd0,40)
chainloader +1
title Vector 5.1 @ hda42
root (hd0,41)
chainloader +1
title Suse 10.0 @ hda43
root (hd0,42)
chainloader +1
title Kororaa 2005 Beta 2 @ hda44
root (hd0,43)
chainloader +1
title smgl 0.45 @ hda45
root (hd0,44)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda45 ro
title Lunar 1.6 @ hda46
root (hd0,45)
kernel /boot/2.6.14.1-normal ro root=/dev/hda46 devfs=no mount
title Foresight 0.93 @ hda47
root (hd0,46)
chainloader +1
title Skolelinux Pro 6 in hda48
root (hd0,47)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-386 root=/dev/hda48 ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-2-386
title Kubuntu dapper in hda49
root (hd0,48)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-9-386 root=/dev/hda49 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.12-9-386
title Klax 3.5 @ hda50
root (hd0,49)
chainloader +1
title K12LTSP 4.10 (need rw switch on) @ hda51
root (hd0,50)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.7-1.494.2.2 rw root=/dev/hda51
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.7-1.494.2.2.img
title Progeny 2.0 booted by Slackware's kernel @ hda52
root (hd0,51)
kernel (hd0,26)/boot/vmlinuz ro root=/dev/hda52
title grml 0.5 @ hda53
root (hd0,52)
chainloader +1
title Fedora Core 2 @ hda54 (must be booted directly with rw switch)
root (hd0,53)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 rw root=/dev/hda54
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img
title Whax 3.0 @ hda55
root (hd0,54)
chainloader +1
title Troppix 1.2 @ hda56
root (hd0,55)
chainloader +1
title TopologLinux 6.0 @ hda57
root (hd0,56)
chainloader +1
title Haansoft 2006 ws @ hda58
root (hd0,57)
chainloader +1
title Fedora Core 3 @ hda59
root (hd0,58)
chainloader +1
title Scientific Linux (with rw) @ hda60
root (hd0,59)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-5.0.5.EL rw root=/dev/hda60 rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-5.0.5.EL.img
# Disk hdc has 54 partitions with 30 systems
title Dos 7.10 @ hdc1
hide (hd0,0)
unhide (hd1,0)
map (hd1) (hd0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
root (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
title Win98 @ hdc2
hide (hd0,0)
hide (hd1,0)
unhide (hd1,1)
root (hd1,1)
makeactive
map (hd1) (hd0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
chainloader +1
title Empty @ hdc3
root (hd1,2)
chainloader +1
# Extended partition is sda4
title B2D Pure KDE 2005 @ hdc5
root (hd1,4)
chainloader +1
title CollegeLinux 2.5 @ hdc6
root (hd1,5)
chainloader +1
title Berry 0.65 @ hdc7
root (hd1,6)
chainloader +1
title Morhpix KDE 0.4 @ hdc8
root (hd1,7)
chainloader +1
title Feather 0.6 @ hdc9
root (hd1,8)
chainloader +1
title Buffalo 1.7.3.9 @ hdc10
root (hd1,9)
chainloader +1
title CentOS 4.1 @ hdc11
root (hd1,10)
chainloader +1
title Vector 4.3 @ hdc12
root (hd1,11)
chainloader +1
title Tao Linux 4.0 @ hdc13
root (hd1,12)
chainloader +1
title Frugaalware 0.1 @ hdc14
root (hd1,13)
chainloader +1
title Agnula Demudi 1.2 @ hdc15
root (hd1,14)
chainloader +1
title Damn Small Linux @ hdc16
root (hd1,15)
chainloader +1
title Monoppix 1.1.8 booted by Slackware 10.2 kernel from (hd1,34) @ hdc17
root (hd1,16)
kernel (hd1,34)/boot/vmlinuz ro root=/dev/hdc17
title Symphony A4 @ hdc18
root (hd1,17)
chainloader +1
title Pocket Linux 1.2 @ hdc19
root (hd1,18)
chainloader +1
title UltimaLinux 4.0 @ hdc20
root (hd1,19)
chainloader +1
title VLOS 1.2 @ hdc21
root (hd1,20)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-vidalinux_r3 ro root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc real_root=/dev/hdc21 video=vesafb:1024x768-32@85 splash=silent,theme:vlos-1.2 quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.12-vidalinux_r3.img
title Tiny Sofa (Ceara) @ hdc22
root (hd1,21)
chainloader +1
title 64 Studio 0.6 @ hdc23
root (hd1,22)
chainloader +1
title Empty @ hdc24
root (hd1,23)
chainloader +1
title Empty @ hdc25
root (hd1,24)
chainloader +1
title Empty @ hdc26
root (hd1,25)
chainloader +1
# here is the approximate boundary of the 137Gb barrier of hdc
title Empty @ hdc27
root (hd1,26)
chainloader +1
title Empty @ hdc28
root (hd1,27)
chainloader +1
title Empty @ hdc29
root (hd1,28)
chainloader +1
title Empty @ hdc30
root (hd1,29)
chainloader +1
title rPath 0.99.2 @ hdc31
root (hd1,30)
chainloader +1
title STX 1.0 rc2 @ hdc32
root (hd1,31)
chainloader +1
title Fedora Core 5 @ hdc33
root (hd1,32)
chainloader +1
title StartCom 4.0.4 Raam @ hdc34
root (hd1,33)
chainloader +1
title Slackware 10.2 @ hdc35
root (hd1,34)
chainloader +1
title Foresight Foresight 0.9 @ hdc36
root (hd1,35)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12.5-fdl.2.x86.i686.cmov ro root=/dev/hdc36 splash=silent vga=791 quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.12.5-fdl.2.x86.i686.cmov.img
title Xandros 3.0 @ hdc37
root (hd1,36)
chainloader +1
title Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger @ hdc38
root (hd1,37)
chainloader +1
title Kate 2.2 (booted by Suse 10 Kernel in hdc43) @ hdc39
root (hd1,38)
kernel (hd0,42)/boot/vmlinuz ro root=/dev/hdc39
initrd (hd0,42)/boot/initrd
# Partitions hdc40 to hdc54 are partitions each 200Mb for Grub working as submenus.
title Grub menu for MS systems only (Dos & Windows) @ hdc40
root (hd1,26)
chainloader +1
title Grub menu for recent additions @ hdc41
root (hd1,40)
chainloader +1
title Grub menu for only small distros @ hdc42
root (hd1,41)
chainloader +1
title Grub menu for only large distros @ hdc43
root (hd1,42)
chainloader +1
title Grub reserved menu (Empty) @ hdc44
root (hd1,43)
chainloader +1
title Grub menu for IDE disk hda only @ hdc45
root (hd1,44)
chainloader +1
title Grub menu for IDE disk hdc only @ hdc46
root (hd1,45)
chainloader +1
title Grub menu for Sata disk sda only @ hdc47
root (hd1,46)
chainloader +1
title Grub menu for Sata disk sdb only @ hdc48
root (hd1,47)
chainloader +1
title Complete menu for all 100+ systems @ hdc49
root (hd1,48)
chainloader +1
title Master Menu to boot submenus @ hdc50
root (hd1,49)
chainloader +1
title Grub reserved menu (Empty) @ hdc51
root (hd1,50)
chainloader +1
title Grub reserved menu (Empty) @ hdc52
root (hd1,51)
chainloader +1
title Grub reserved menu (Empty) @ hdc53
root (hd1,52)
chainloader +1
title Grub reserved menu (Empty) @ hdc54
root (hd1,53)
chainloader +1
# Third disk sda is a Sata with 15 partitions, 9 are bootable
title XP pro @ sdb1
hide (hd0,0)
hide (hd1,0)
hide (hd1,1)
unhide (hd2,0)
map (hd2) (hd0)
map (hd0) (hd2)
root (hd2,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
title Empty @ sda2
root (hd2,1)
chainloader +1
title Empty @ sda3
root (hd2,2)
chainloader +1
# Extended partition here is the sdb4
title Empty @ sda5
root (hd2,4)
chainloader +1
title Ututu x2 2005.1 @ sda6
root (hd2,5)
chainloader +1
title Helix 1.7 @ sda7
root (hd2,6)
chainloader +1
title MagicLinux 2.0 rc2 @ sda8
root (hd2,7)
chainloader +1
title Zenwalk 1.2 @ sda9
root (hd2,8)
chainloader +1
title MedianLinux 4 rc5 @ sda10
root (hd2,9)
chainloader +1
title NetBSD i386 3.0 rc6 @ sda11
root (hd2,10)
chainloader +1
title Arabian 0.6 rc1 @ sda12
root (hd2,11)
chainloader +1
title Mepis 3.3.2 @ sda13
root (hd2,12)
chainloader +1
# Persinal data partion @ sda14
title Empty @ sda15
root (hd2,14)
chainloader +1
# Fourth disk sdb is a Sata with 15 partitions, 8 are bootable
title Win2k @ sdb1
hide (hd0,0) # hiding DOS 6.22 partition in hda1
hide (hd1,0) # hiding DOS 7.10 partition in hdc1
hide (hd1,1) # hiding Win98 partition in hdc2
hide (hd2,0) # hiding Win XP partition in sda1
unhide (hd3,0) # unhide Win2k partition for execution
root (hd3,0)
makeactive
map (hd3) (hd0)
map (hd0) (hd3)
chainloader +1
title FreeDOS @ sdb2
hide (hd0,0) # hiding DOS 6.22 partition in hda1
hide (hd1,0) # hiding DOS 7.10 partition in hdc1
hide (hd1,1) # hiding Win98 partition in hdc2
hide (hd2,0) # hiding Win XP partition in sda1
hide (hd3,0) # hiding Win2k partition in sdb1
unhide (hd3,1)
root (hd3,1)
makeactive
map (hd3) (hd0)
map (hd0) (hd3)
chainloader +1
title Empty @ sdb3
root (hd3,4)
chainloader +1
# Partition sdb4 is an extended partition
title NetBSD 3.0 AMD64 @ sdb5
root (hd3,4)
chainloader +1
title Empty @ sdb6
root (hd3,5)
chainloader +1
title Empty @ sdb7
root (hd3,6)
chainloader +1
title Frugalware 0.4 @ sdb8
root (hd3,7)
chainloader +1
title Empty @ sdb9
root (hd3,8)
chainloader +1
title Quantian 0.7.9.1 @ sdb10
root (hd3,9)
chainloader +1
title Suse 10.1 x86 64 @ sdb11
root (hd3,10)
chainloader +1
title Empty @ sdb12
root (hd3,11)
chainloader +1
title Knoppix 4.0.2 @ sdb13
root (hd3,12)
chainloader +1
title Mandriva Release 2006 @ sdb14
root (hd3,13)
chainloader +1
title Empty @ sdb15
root (hd3,14)
chainloader +1
I found it necessary to isolate the 6 BSD and 2 Solaris systems with a separate Grub Menu as follow Code: # Grub menu to boot 5 BSDs, 2 Solaris, 1 Win98 & 3 Linux
timeout 1000
color cyan/blue white/blue
foreground ffffff
background 0639a1
title PcBSD 1.0 RC1 @ hda1 (ad0s1)
hide (hd0,1) #hide FreeBSD in hda2
unhide (hd0,2) #Solaris partition is hidden if "unhided" by Grub
hide (hd0,3) #hide DesktopBSD in hda4
unhide (hd0,0) #unhide PcBSD partition
root (hd0,0) #specify its root
chainloader +1 #Ask Grub to chainload PcBSD's own boot loader
title FreeBSD Release 6 @ hda2 (ad0s1)
hide (hd0,0)
unhide (hd0,2)
hide (hd0,3)
unhide (hd0,1)
root (hd0,1)
chainloader +1
title Solaris Express @ hda3 (c0d0s0)
# Solaris is invisible to others if unhide (a special case)
hide (hd0,0)
hide (hd0,1)
hide (hd0,3)
hide (hd0,2) #Grub's hide statement actually makes Solaris visible
root (hd0,2)
chainloader +1
title DesktopBSD 1.0 RC3 AMD64 @ hda4
hide (hd0,0)
hide (hd0,1)
unhide (hd0,2)
unhide (hd0,3)
root (hd0,3)
chainloader +1
# the following partitions are in the second disk
title Win98 @ hdc1 # Win98 supplies Grub to multi boot the rest
root (hd1,0)
map (hd1) (hd0) # disk order is re-arranged on-the-fly
map (hd0) (hd1) # because Win98 was installed as a "C" drive
chainloader +1
title DragonflyBSD 11.2 @ hdc2
unhide (hd1,1)
unhide (hd1,2)
hide (hd1,3)
root (hd1,1)
chainloader +1
#The following 2 lines are for direct booting DragonflyBSD directly
#but it isn't used because in hiding DragonflyBSD its menu becomes invisible
#root (hd1,a)
#kernel /boot/loader
title Solaris 10 @ hdc3
hide (hd1,1)
hide (hd1,2) #Hiding Solaris in Grub actually make Solaris visible
hide (hd1,3)
root (hd1,2)
chainloader +1
# hda4 is the extended partition
# hda5 is used as a Linux Swap partition
title Pocket Linux 2.0 @ hdc6
hide (hd1,1)
unhide (hd1,2)
unhide (hd1,3) #unhiding the whole extended partition
root (hd1,5)
chainloader +1
title NetBSD 3.0 RC5 AMD64 @ hdc7
hide (hd1,1)
unhide (hd1,2)
unhide (hd1,3)
root (hd1,6)
chainloader +1
title Demudi 1.3 @ hdc8
hide (hd1,1)
unhide (hd1,2)
unhide (hd1,3)
root (hd1,7)
chainloader +1
title MEPIS 3.4.2 at hda9
hide (hd1,1)
unhide (hd1,2)
unhide (hd1,3)
root (hd1,8)
chainloader +1
|  | Distinguished Member with 6,458 posts. | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Louisiana Experience: 1+3+3=7 | | LOL I've done such a thing, but not with 100, 25 yes but not 100. Lotsa chainloading involved though the 3 i used the most were on their own bootloader. I guess only good for development (or just plain showing off) 
Then ofcourse I think it was you along time ago who taught me.
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"There's no place like 127.0.0.1" | | | Distinguished Member with 2,835 posts. | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Newcastle Experience: A Linux user gone nuts on multi-boot | | I have numbered the information hoping to use it to help users still stuck in dual boot , tri boot ...etc.
It is a different ball game to boot a system not designed to cross the 137Gb barrier and in a partition that it reports its own root "cannot be found". Howver, given a bit of time we should find all distros should be able to live on both sides of the 137Gb barrier. | | | Distinguished Member with 6,458 posts. | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Louisiana Experience: 1+3+3=7 | | So howmany virtual partitions you have in the extended??
It must b tons. And ur instaling the distros and putting their own bootloader on their own partitions right? (except for the one that chainloads them all) | | | Distinguished Member with 2,835 posts. | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Newcastle Experience: A Linux user gone nuts on multi-boot | | My hda has 60 partitions and the logical partitions start at the 5th position. I am at the limit of what Linux can offer.
I have done a thread showing how one can get over 200+ partition out of a hard disk. That is more of a trick than for the practical use.
The 100+ systems have 85 booted by chainloading which requires each system to have a boot loader in its root partition. The remaining 18 distros that failed in chainloading becuase they got bugs, or diplomatically they are not yet in full compliance with the published Linux standard.
The 100+ system thread shows that I had put Grub on itself in 15 partitions so that I could use them as submenus for booting selected groups. |  | Distinguished Member with 2,051 posts. | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Alberta, Canada Experience: Windows: Decent. Unix/Linux: Advanced +1 | | So. Tell me. Does having 100+ systems around.... do anything? Or is it mainly bragging rights? | | | Distinguished Member with 2,835 posts. | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Newcastle Experience: A Linux user gone nuts on multi-boot | | I do it mainly to summarise the booting tips so that I don't have to write every time again and again when explaining it in helping others. I simply refer them to the relevant paragraphs.
There are ares one would not come across unless booting beyond the 137Gb barriers, using Kernel from Linux A to boot Linux B, high partition numbers that many distros can't cope.
The menu and the partitioning scheme together have adequately defined how each system was booted. I would have thought people having a booting problem would find it helpful.
I have published it so everyone knows what is involved. The whole point is there is nothing difficult in there but we still have regular posts on how to dual boot, triboot.
What do you think? You don't think it is a contribution to the Linux community?
I don't know why people here hate multi-booters. | | | Distinguished Member with 2,051 posts. | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Alberta, Canada Experience: Windows: Decent. Unix/Linux: Advanced +1 | | No, no, you misunderstand. I like multi boot; I do it myself on a couple of my computers. It's a satisfactory answer to a problem (The best though, IMO would be wonderful virtualization tech, ala XEN).
That said, the question I meant was what does it do for you? Is it a learning experiance, learning the differences between OSes, learning how to boot 100 OSes? I guess you sort of asnwered it above; it was to do it, and contribute it back to the community. |  | Distinguished Member with 14,988 posts. | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: 1265 Lombardi Ave Experience: IIAHYAYCESA,YAADA! | | Sweet!
Did you ever see that episode on ScreenSavers of that guy who used XOSL to multiboot like 36 different operating systems. He had like every version of DOS and Windows as well as some obscure OS's that I had never heard of.
here is the link. http://www.g4tv.com/screensavers/fea...Menagerie.html | | | Distinguished Member with 6,458 posts. | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Louisiana Experience: 1+3+3=7 |
30-Dec-2005, 05:01 PM
#10 | Is the initial Grub menu you see when booting your computer graphical or text?
I mean does it have nice titles with scroll and a good background image? It would seem much more inviting.
PS, someone needs to give you two 500GB harddrives and lotsa emulation software, knowing you after a year or so you'll have every attainable OS in the world on there heh heh. (maybe you'll need more than one TB)
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30-Dec-2005, 06:45 PM
#11 | quashman
Thanks for the link. I believe you told me once about this multi-booter. I didn't follow him as I use everything within Linux or just Grub. I want to learn Linux and that was what I could get out of one of the two boot loaders. Everything I did was what Linux supposed to be able to do. In 2002 I would not be able to do 100+ systems because there is no way I could persuade distros, with 2.2 or even 2.4 kernels, to go inside a Sata, installed beyond 137Gb in a hard disk or residing at a high partition like hda60. Even today about about of them still can't.
Whiteskin
It is a fact that there are people here think learning a Linux must go through the hard way, stick with one distro, be told what to do from publications written 5 years ago, compile and build your own kernel, do everything in command mode and so on.
I found it easier to have a few distros so that I can compare them, find out why my network or sound works in one but not in the other, compare the way each one boots itself, X-windows settings and surviving only on commands common to all of them. It is just another way of learing the operating system.
I notice the Linux community is a mixture of very experienced and the very green with very little in between. I am green but I like to help newbies who got stuck on something the experienced users may have anwered hundreds of times and could get bored to answer again. I just did my share handing out knowledge I learned from the forum. I have a bad habit by explaining the newbies too much, giving a wrong impression that I know my stuff. In actual fact I was describing the logic behind and hoping someone would correct me if I make a mistake. There is no better way to learn from one's own mistakes.
iXneonXi
You remind me a story about a guy who wanted to be locked up in a room to enjoy smoking miillons and millions of cigarettes. On the day he was released he was found to have smoked none because he forgot to ask for a box of matches.
The moral of the story is that Linux only allows a maximum of 15 partitions in a Sata so make sure the two 500Gb disks are not Sata in your adventure.
I didn't have any fancy bit in my Grub menu. It is a straight application of Grub's basic commands. There is a lot of scope to make it more interesting. If you want to see how it runs just cut and paste the menu into your own /boot/grub/menu.lst | | | Distinguished Member with 6,458 posts. | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Louisiana Experience: 1+3+3=7 |
30-Dec-2005, 07:31 PM
#12 | Hehe, so I'll go use ur conf (ofcourse it won't do much heh heh, so i'll be putting it on a cd) and see what it looks like. I may (actually I wont, it just sounds good) even make it look nice with a good splash image and some graphics for you.
Your message directed towards whiteskin. I always thought it was that way too. Everyone keeps saying "if you really want to learn linux, you gotta go from scratch, put all the stuff in one place, compile your own kernel, etc...." The task seemed crazy and I just decided fool around with random stuff. I'd mess with RH9, then I moved to FC2. Then I moved to mandriva, and ubuntu, etc. Just to have fun. I think I've gotten past that and when I get time I'll try out gentoo (the hard way). We'll see how that goes (before that 50 page manual I printed goes outdated).
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12-Feb-2006, 04:49 PM
#13 | | |  THIS THREAD HAS EXPIRED.
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