RE: Weird looking partition table

[Albert DE WINT <adwint pandora be>]

Op vr 30-05-2003, om 16:29 schreef Mark Knecht:
> >
> > Op vr 30-05-2003, om 15:35 schreef Otto Haliburton:
> > > Hda1 is a extended partition containing hda5, hda6, and hda7.  I don't
> > > know why it has Win95 in it except that partition type is loosely used
> > > and may have stray bits in it(who knows).  Looks okay to me, maybe
> > > someone else has an opinion.
> > >
> >
> > Thank you, "I can see clearly, now"
> > So my Mandrake stuff is kept hostage by "Win95" :-)
> > Maybe that's why it did not show up in GRUB?
> >
> Albert,
>    I think that it did not show up in grub because Mandrake and Redhat
> install different grub installations. If you boot RH, but then mount either
> hda5 or hda6 under RH, I think you will find another /boot directory and
> another grub.conf file. This has happened to me in the past.
> 
>    What you need to do is to 'consolidate' the grub.conf files from the two
> installations into a single grub.conf under RH. Then grub will give you the
> option to boot either one. As I say, I boot 3 different installations,
> including RH and Mandrake, this way.
> 
> Mark

Thanks Mark, 

I finally get the picture.
Maybe, I should have told in the first place that I used to boot
Mandrake in LILO, not GRUB.

I'll now add Mandrake in /boot/grub/grub.conf. 

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