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voidmain:
Use Linux "fdisk", it recognizes like 100 partition types. M$ FDISK only recognizes like 3.

Master of Reality:
what do i put in grub.conf to add an entry to debian which i just intstall on hdb3.
Could i just copy the entry for red hat and change the partition (and name)?

voidmain:
I would assume the debian installation uses a different kernel version. If you were to copy the RedHat entry and change the "root" partition, you would also have to put a copy of the Debian kernel in your "/boot" partition where grub resides on your RedHat side. You would also have to have a copy of the initrd image if your Debian uses one.

However, probably the easiest thing would have been to install Debian and had it install LILO to the partition boot sector on whichever partition your Debian is installed on.  Then you would just need an entry similiar to a Windows Boot entry in GRUB's menu.lst file. All of this is speculation as I have not tried it but I think it should work. I personally switched back to LILO with the SuSe animated menus on my RedHat 7.2 boxes although GRUB seemed to work well.

[ April 29, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

Master of Reality:

quote:Originally posted by VoidMain:
However, probably the easiest thing would have been to install Debian and had it install LILO to the partition boot sector on whichever partition your Debian is installed on.  Then you would just need an entry similiar to a Windows Boot entry in GRUB's menu.lst file. All of this is speculation as I have not tried it but I think it should work. I personally switched back to LILO with the SuSe animated menus on my RedHat 7.2 boxes although GRUB seemed to work well.

[ April 29, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]
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hey, wait.. I actually did that. I installed LILO to the partition boot sector of my Debian partition (HDB2). So what do i add for it? I dont know what a windows entry looks like, so that wont help me.

voidmain:

quote:Originally posted by Master of Reality:

hey, wait.. I actually did that. I installed LILO to the partition boot sector of my Debian partition (HDB2). So what do i add for it? I dont know what a windows entry looks like, so that wont help me.
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I would try something like:


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I'm not sure about the chainloader option, they only show it for DOS/Win/OS2 but all the other examples in /usr/share/doc/grub-0.90/menu.lst (which you should also have) give the path to the kernel and initrd.  I'm thinking if you treat it like a DOS boot partition it will kick off LILO and LILO will have the kernel/initrd parameters needed to boot Debian.  Again, I'm speculating. It shouldn't hurt anything to try it as long as you don't mess up your RedHat entry..

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