grub for triple boot

[Thufir]

On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Jeff Vian wrote:

> From: Jeff Vian <jvian10 at charter.net>
> Subject: Re: grub for triple boot
> Newsgroups: gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general
> 
> On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 07:11 +0100, Thufir wrote:
>> The slave hard drive on my box is dual boot windows/linux.  The master
>> also has linux.  This makes for three OS's.  Only the master hard drive is
>> booting at the moment, which I'd like to fix.  All data has been backed
>> up.
[...]
> try adding 2 additional lines in there before the rootnoverify option
>            map (hd0) (hd1)
>            map (hd1) (hd0)
[...]

This worked perfectly, thanks :)

my /boot/grub/grub.conf file, for the record:

[thufir at arrakis ~]$ su -
Password:
[root at arrakis ~]# cat /boot/grub/grub.conf -n
      1  # grub.conf generated by anaconda
      2  #
      3  # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to 
this file
      4  # NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
      5  #          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
      6  #          root (hd0,0)
      7  #          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro 
root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
      8  #          initrd /initrd-version.img
      9  #boot=/dev/hda1
     10  default=0
     11  timeout=5
     12  splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
     13  hiddenmenu
     14  title Fedora Core (2.6.15-1.2054_FC5)
     15          root (hd0,0)
     16          kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 ro 
root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
     17          initrd /initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.img
     18  title win2k
     19  #    21  try adding 2 additional lines in there before the 
rootnoverify option
     20          map (hd0) (hd1)
     21          map (hd1) (hd0)
     22          rootnoverify (hd1,0)
     23          chainloader +1
     24
[root at arrakis ~]# date
Tue Aug 29 04:33:38 IST 2006
[root at arrakis ~]#
[root at arrakis ~]#


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