[Nelug] Linux Newbie

[steve]

Well, with any luck (now that I've switched from mutt to netscape,
praise ntl) this will get through this time.

On 03 Nov 04, Craig Bates (cibates at yahoo.co.uk) wrote:
> > I run XP and SUSE 9.1 Pro on my laptop and they seem
> > to be playing fine.
> >
> > It sounds to me that GRUB has a dodgy entry in the
> > config files, causing it to boot from (a non-existant)
> > partition.
> 
> FWIW, here's my grub config (trimmed). Grub and windows installed to
> /dev/hda, linux root on hdb1
> 
> default         0
> timeout         5
> 
> title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.27-1-686
> root            (hd1,0)
> kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-1-686 root=/dev/hdb1 ro hdc=ide-scsi
> initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-1-686
> 
> title           Windows NT/2000/XP
> root            (hd0,0)
> makeactive
> chainloader     +1
>