[luau] RH7.3 on Presario

[Warren Togami]

On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 04:13, Alvin Murphy wrote:
> Thanks Warren and Wilson for the tips, especially on Grub. I am not sure 
> how to figure out which partition WinXP is on; I loaded it first 
> (actually came loaded) so I guess it is the first partition, i.e. 
> /dev/hda1 in Linuxspeak. So I will try using your edits just as you 
> wrote them. Hmm, would partition magic tell me for sure?  
> 

Any partitioning tool will show you which partition it is on, although
it really isn't so bad if you guess wrong.

I'm willing to guess it is (hd0,0), although if this isn't the case and
the boot fails, you aren't stuck!

Without even booting into Linux and modifying grub.conf again, you can
simply type commands at the GRUB prompt.  Type "help" to find a list of
commands, though you may want to search the web for more documentation. 
GRUB is also very nice in its ability to read filesystems like ext2,
ext3, reiserfs, XFS and vfat (?), with tab filename completion.  This is
useful if you accidentally deleted kernels or had some kind of
catastrophic accident with your partitions, cases in which LILO would
simply fail and leave you with no options.  With GRUB commands, you can
search for other kernels on your filesystem or use the following command
to boot into other operating systems like Windows via the chain loader.

rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

If that doesn't work, just try other partition numbers.  Once you find
the right one, reboot into Linux, edit your grub.conf and make it
permanent.

GRUB rules.  LILO is okay.