Re: grub as bootloader for linux and windows

[David Z Maze <dmaze@debian.org>]

mw <Michael.Wordehoff@gmx.de> writes:
> I chose to have no special /boot-Partition, it's within the / on
> hda8.

GRUB shoudl deal fine with this case.

> Linux = ext2:
> 4) home ....................................... 500 ... hda6 = log2
> 5) / (inkl. /boot ) ........................  3000 ... hda7 = log3
> 6) var ..........................................  500 ... hda8 = log4
> 7) tmp .......................................... 500  ... hda9 = log5
> 8) swap_linux .............................. 500 ... hda10 = log6
...
> title Debian Woody (floppy )
> kernel (hd0,5)/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18 root=/dev/hda6

This is inconsistent with what you sent above.  I'd use

  root (hd0,6)
  kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18 root=/dev/hda7

Incrementing to (hd0,7) and /dev/hda8 if your original text is correct
and / is really on /dev/hda8.

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