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> Trey Sizemore wrote:
>
>> Geoffrey wrote:
>
>
>>> What does the grub config file look like?  You might try running 
>>> grub-install.
>>>
>>>
>> Well, I've not got it where I can boot to Mandrake (rescue mode 
>> allowed me to install grub on the slave drive's MBR).  So now the 
>> trick will be to add the other distros to Mandrake's grub.conf 
>> file...haven't done that in quite a while.  I'm sure with a little 
>> digging I can remember the format.
>
>
> It's pretty straight forward, just keep the number correct.  The 
> actual references to the filesystems (/dev/hda1) will be the same, but 
> remember:
>
> root (hd0,7)  is /dev/hda8
> root (hd1,1)  is /dev/hdb2
>
> Make sure you get the kernel names right as some use variations.  
> Also, some use different references to the initrd image:
>
> SuSE:        initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd
> Mandrake:    initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd.img
>
I think I remember doing this many moons ago and I mounted the other 
partitions from within the current distro to see what the actual paths  
were for things like /boot/initrd and others...



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