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Aletheuo

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Registered: 2004-03-26

Posts: 59

Need some help configuring menu.lst

I have AL 0.6 installed on a 20gig ide hard drive with 2.6 ide kernel and I am wanting to add a 2nd hard drive that has WindowsXP / Fedora Core 1 already installed on it.
I have the 2nd hard drive installed and now I need to configure the AL menu.lst file so that I can boot any one of the 3 OS's, but I'm not sure what to add into menu.lst because of the difference linux kernel's.

Here's my current AL 0.6 menu.lst file boot section:
# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux  [/boot/vmlinuz26]
root   (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/discs/disc0/part1 ro

Here is the grub.conf from the 2nd hard drive's Fedora Core1 OS:
title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2188.nptl)
        root (hd0,1)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2188.nptl ro root=/dev/hda3 rhgb
        initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2188.nptl.img
title WindowsXP
        rootnoverify (hd0,0)
        chainloader +1

Anybody know how to setup menu.lst with my info above so I can boot to any of the 3 os's?
Thanks for any help you can give!

Craig

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i3839

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Registered: 2004-02-04

Posts: 1,185

Re: Need some help configuring menu.lst

Well, you could combine those two menus into one, e.g.

title Arch Linux [/boot/vmlinuz26]
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/discs/disc0/part1 ro

title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2188.nptl)
root (hd1,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2188.nptl ro root=/dev/hdb3 rhgb
initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2188.nptl.img

title WindowsXP
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1 

The important part is that your second drive is named differently than before, so make sure that the second drive is really (hd1,0) and hdb.

Aletheuo

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Registered: 2004-03-26

Posts: 59

Re: Need some help configuring menu.lst

k, I thought I could merge the 2 but wanted to make sure, because of the different kernel's and distro differences.

Thanks a bunch!
Craig

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LavaPunk

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Registered: 2004-03-05

Posts: 129

Re: Need some help configuring menu.lst

To boot XP from hdb you're going to have to map the drives...

Moo-Crumpus

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From: Hessen / Germany

Registered: 2003-12-01

Posts: 1,488

Re: Need some help configuring menu.lst

have a look at the wiki

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