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A mate has two win98 and one win95 on his first hard disk and a second hd for - ubuntu. To get M$ to see the correct C disk, grub legacy stanzas for any one of the win9x have always had to include two hide and one unhide command.
Ubuntu comes with grub2 and I thought I'd try super grub disk first and see whether I can boot all win9x - but no. SGD sees them but does not hide/unhide the relevant partitions so that it always boots the first win9x.
A bit of googling found parttool as part of grub2 command line possibilities which has a hidden+/- feature.
I won't be able to try this on his computer until this pm:
1) boot from SGD
2) go into CLI
3) use parttool to hide/unhide the relevant partitions (say hd0,2)
4) set root (hd0,2)
5) chainload +1
6) boot
And I should be good to go. Am I on the right track? Any advice of course welcome
PS.:
This is more of an exploratory/note taking thread with a view to a proper wiki entry if I succeed as there is nothing on google or the web out there that applies to grub2 CLI stuff.
Last edited by toad (2010-04-21 13:41:31)
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Okay, this is solved, parttool did the trick on the grub CLI.
The following sequence hides the first two C disks and boots off the third - something super grub disk was not able to do automagically
parttool hd0,1 hidden+ boot-
parttool hd0,2 hidden+ boot-
parttool hd0,3 hidden- boot+
set root=hd0,3
chainloader +1
boot
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Last edited by toad (2010-04-21 13:55:05)
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