mikshaw
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Posted: Jan. 13 2007,13:51 |
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Look at Grub's menu.lst and use the existing lines as a guide. there are 3 main parts to an OS entry:
1) the label displayed by Grub.
2) the kernel you want to boot, including any boottime options
3) the initial ramdisk image, which is sometimes not needed.
The boot files will most likely always be installed into the /boot directory of the target partition, so you can get file paths there. Often the kernel is named "linux" or something very similar.
Another option is to backup your current Grub and then let Xubuntu install its own bootloader to replace it. You can go into that and add te entry you already used for DSL.
It doesn't matter which is installed first. You usually have the option to install a bootloader (typically grub or lilo, depending on the distro), or to skip the bootloader install and use the one you already have. In some cases the existing bootloader can influence this decision. In my case, I already had Grub installed in Suse when I installed DSL, so i just used that. When I installed Slackware, which comes with Lilo, I also skipped the bootloader install. However, when I decided Suse was eventually going to be removed I installed Grub in Slackware, using the same settings I had in Suse's Grub.
So...Grub can be shuffled around quite a bit. As long as it's properly installed, and knows where to find it's config, there should be very little trouble.
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