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Posted: Aug. 07 2005,07:16 QUOTE
Ok so I installed DSL on a second hard drive, and it installed grub for the boot loader. Now I have no idea at all how grub works, and it might be nice to get on my windows os.

My Windows is on hda
DSL is on hdb

so if someone could help me figure out how to grub works, that'd be great!
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Posted: Aug. 07 2005,13:53 QUOTE
In /boot/grub/menu.lst:
title Windows
  chainloader(hd0,0)+1

This assumes that by "hda" you mean "hda1".  If it were hda2, the chainloader would point to hd0,1.  "Chainloader" is a redirection to the bootloader of another operating system.

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Posted: Aug. 07 2005,16:08 QUOTE
I don't really have access to any permanent files becuase, it just loads grub up, and no OS or anything. Becuase I don't know how to boot any OS through grub. I have to boot up DSL ever time through the cd.

I think I figured it out, I just need to get the path were the WindowsXP kernel is and where the DSL kernel is. I went to Grub's website and this is what it said to do...

Set the harddrive by doing the root command
Select the Kernel through the kernel command
Then use the boot command.

So I just need to the location of the kernels so I can boot them.
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Posted: Sep. 19 2005,19:38 QUOTE
I need a little grub help as well:

I have a notebook with one hd with two partitions: The first is FAT, the other is NTFS. WinXP is installed on the second partition with ntloader on the first.

Is there a way to do a grub/frugal installation and maintain the possibility to boot WinXP?


TIA
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Posted: Sep. 20 2005,07:00 QUOTE
Oh yes: you can do a frugal installation and keep your XP alive.
To do this follow theese simple steps:
- make a standard frugal installation (that one with lilo... don't worry if you can't temporary access to your XP partiton...it's normal...)
- start DSL
- download extension grub.dsl with mydsl
- download the frugal_grub.sh script from the "download" section of DSL site (download the scripd in the same dir of grub.dsl extension)
- run the rugal_grub.sh script (with the DSL-live-CD inserted and configure Grub for the XP partition [automatical configuration procedure])

As for a magic..... Grub is installed in 2 minuts!! And your files (old DSL backups, home, etc) are saved thank's to the first frugal installation (the first step I supposed....)

Bye and a BIG thanks to the DSL developers for the great job they do for us!!
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