[ale] Getting Linux OS to boot

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

Trey Sizemore wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 20:43:16 -0500, "Geoffrey" <esoteric at 3times25.net>
> said:
> 
>>Jerald Sheets wrote:
>>
>>>I've got a tiny XP partition, Soalris 10, Fedora 3,
>>>and in a few moments (gesturing wildly at screen)
>>>Ubuntu.
>>
>>Remember the box I brought to Lisa?  It had:
>>
>>FC1,
>>FC2,
>>Mandrake 10.1,
>>Suse 9.0,
>>Suse 9.1
>>Sun Java desktop,
>>Lindows,
>>Xandros
>>
>>I think that was all of them. :)
>>
> 
> Woof!  One disk, two disks?  I'd be curious to see your grub.conf or
> menu.list.

It really was just a study in 'can I do this.'  It was one 80 gig drive, 
thus I had 10 gig per distro. It's since long gone as I've restored the 
machine for another purpose.

I do have a couple of tri-boot machines that I'd be glad to share the 
menu.lst of if you'd like.  What the hey, here is one.  You'll note the 
copyright at the top indicating it's (a modified version) from Emperor 
Linux.  Just remembered, this actually has four entries.  SuSE 9.2, RHWS 
with two different kernels and Winxp.

#
#       copyright 1999-2003 Lincoln D. Durey <www.EmperorLinux.com> GNU-GPL
#       Gazelle GRX500 grub.conf  kern:2419,RedHat  Linux/Win dual-boot 
(MBR)
#
 

# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You do not have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
 

default 0
timeout 15
# splashimage (hd0,5)/usr/share/emperor/emp_splash.xpm.gz
# default saved
 

title   RedHat Linux Enterprise Workstation 3 with 2.6 kernel
 

root    (hd0,5)
         kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8.1-emp1\
         root=/dev/hda6 ro\
         vga=795\
         apm=off \
         acpi-=on
         # hdc=ide-scsi\

title   RedHat Linux Enterprise Workstation 3
# savedefault
         # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-9.EL ro\

root    (hd0,5)
         kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.24-emp_2424sw\
         root=/dev/hda6 ro\
         hdc=ide-scsi\
         vga=795\
         apm=off

# new SuSE 9.0 install
title SuSE 9.0 2.4.21
root (hd0,7)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz \
root=/dev/hda8 ro \
hdc=ide-scsi \
vga=792 \
apm=off

# the MSFT partition
title   A Microsoft Virus
         rootnoverify (hd0,0)
         chainloader +1

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey