[Sussex] Grub

David Chapman linux-lists at ntlworld.com
Fri Aug 13 14:46:46 UTC 2004


Having a spot of bother with grub.
Some how I managed to let Suse reinstall its version of grub which unlike 
Debian does not recognise other Linux OS,s
I have been trying to add Debian to the Suse menu but it complains about file 
not found when I reboot and select Debian.

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This is the Suse version of menu.lst
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title SuSE 9.1 Pro
    kernel (hd1,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb3 vga=0x317 splash=silent desktop 
resume=/dev/sdb2 showopts
    initrd (hd1,0)/initrd

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows 2###
title Debian (sarge)
    root (hd3,0)
    kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.7-1-686-smp root=/dev/sdd1 ro
    initrd /initrd.img-2.6.7-1-686-smp
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Debian version of menu.lst

# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing
# linux installation on /dev/sdb3.
title SuSE Linux Pro 9.1 (i586) (on /dev/sdb3)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-7.104-smp root=/dev/sdb3
savedefault
boot
initrd /initrd-2.6.5-7.104-smp

title		Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.7-1-686-smp 
root		(hd3,0)
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.7-1-686-smp root=/dev/sdd1 ro 
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.7-1-686-smp
savedefault
boot




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