Re: Btw: GRUB
Windows NT boots quite wonderfully using the chainloader. I believe
OKUJI has made possible booting into FAT32 although I have kept my FAT16
system just to be safe. The new grub 0.5.93 is sounding like it is
going to be exceptional. You can cue in to whats happening on the grub
scene <bug-grub@gnu.org> by sending an email to
<bug-grub-request@gnu.org> with a subject subscribe
The stuff they are building into grub is really quite exciting.
Jim
Daniel Burrows wrote:
>
> On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 01:47:49AM +1000, Michael Drueing was heard to say:
> > by the way, can I use GRUB for booting other OS's, too? Like Linux / Win9x /
> > WinNT / Amoeba / BSD / Anything ???
> > The name suggests that is should work ("Grand Unified"???)
> >
> > --Michael
>
> Yes. GRUB can directly load Linux and BSD..I believe it can chainload Win9x
> and friends as well. (WinNT might be tricky .. I've been told it's pretty picky
> about how it gets booted..in particular, I don't think LILO can load it. Since
> I don't own it I've never tried booting it with GRUB)
>
> Anyway, for Linux and BSD you just use the kernel= command. For other
> non-MultiBoot operating systems you can chainload. The GRUB command line is
> really nice here, since you can test boot configurations without editing the
> config file itself (and thus having to bring up an entire OS).
>
> For reference, here's my menu.lst:
>
> color=19 35
> timeout=5
>
> title=Linux
> root=(hd1,1)
> kernel=/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb2
> boot
>
> title=Hurd
> root=(hd1,0)
> kernel=/boot/gnumach.gz root=hd1s1
> module=/boot/serverboot.gz
> boot
>
> title=Win95
> root=(hd0,0)
> chainloader=(hd0,0)+1
> boot
>
> Note that I don't think I've actually booted Win95 since I set this up last
> month, so I have no idea if that's the right way to do it :)
>
> Daniel
>
> --
> Radicalism:
> The conservatism of tomorrow injected into the affairs of today.
> -- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
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