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Re: grub choices



Mark Grieveson wrote:

Mark Grieveson wrote:

> Hello.  I installed ms-dos, and then shrank it, and subsequently
> installed Debian in its own partition. Debian's grub, however, did not > see ms-dos as an operating system, and, therefore, did not set up a menu > choice for it. How do I go about setting up a menu choice for it in grub?
> > Thanks,
> > Mark

As root, edit your /boot/grub/menu.lst file.  Add something like this:

title MS-DOS
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

Change (hd0,0) to something else if dos isn't on the first partition (hda1).

Roby
I tried this, and it stated something like that ext3 could not be found. I then changed root to be (hd0,2). It gave me a more general error. I'm not sure what to try now.
Once GRUB boots, get a command line from GRUB and use the GRUB "find" command to explore the drives on your computer, and see whether Window$ survived the shrink process. (If necessary, go to another machine, make a GRUB boot CD or GRUB boot floppy from which to boot.)

The GRUB manual is on-line:

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html

RLH



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