Re: Grub question...
"Larry 'Daffy' Daffner" <vizzie@mail.airmail.net> writes:
> This is true; however, you can change the root device in the kernel
> with rdev (at least I think that's the name of the tool)
Yeah, that's the one. If grub works out for me, I'm going to see
about writing a little snippet for kernel-package that'll let you
choose grub instead of lilo via /etc/kernel-pkg.conf (that's assuming
that Manoj likes it).
> title= Windows 95
> root= (hd0,0)
> chainloader= (hd0,0)+1
Hmm, I must have overlooked the chainloader bit in the docs. What's
the +1 for? (guess I'll go poke around).
> Not sure what you mean by remapping drives though. I never managed to
> notice that feature of LILO.
Say I've got my Win boot partition on /dev/sdbX and a win data
partition on /dev/sdaX. Normally in this case the SCSI BIOS will make
/dev/sda drive C and /dev/sdb drive D.
I've seen DOS/Win get a little cranky when you're booting from drive
D, so the LILO remapping option allows you to tell it to remap
/dev/sda to be hd1 (in grub terminology) and /dev/sdb to be hd0 so
drive C and D get swapped at the BIOS level just before control is
handed over to DOS. Clever hack, that...
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