Hello Lists. Thank you for your suggestions ! Got clear now about grub's numbering. And the penguin offers me a beer from the mbr, and this moment behind me there's the windull2000 device installer happily rattling through the hd....
Looking back, the main problem was that i made things too complicated. The docu at [ http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Multiboot-with-GRUB.html ] refers to installing a whole palette of Microsoffers at once, however, i didn't install any other ms-OS yet. Win2000 let me choose it's root-partition and did not overwrite the grub-mbr. Hiding partitions was not neccessary, even not building a boot-floppy. Which i did by 'grub-install /dev/fd0' with no problems, despite the warning in grub's info-page. In fact, it was not necessary to rely on additional docu at all. The README's that are shipped with woody were all i needed. And I missed the important fact that there is a Debian 'update-grub' now which installs a proper and simple draft for menu.lst and gave some basic hints. As usual, debian had the solutions already for what i tried to do my own way ;-) With my new partition table, Grub did boot win2000 easily on the first try. And now that i checked the grub -shell and -editor, i am so delighted ! Don't want to offend anybody, but i wonder how i was ever fiddling around with lilo ( or another distribution ;-)) Hope I can ask you if i come to X and the NIC's....:) -- Michl ( next building a minimal homenetwork with a Dell Inspiron 5000 ) mw schrieb zu Re: grub as bootloader for linux and windows: > --- please reply directly, I'm not on the list --- > ***Sorry:*** my first mail was sent accidently before finished. > > I intendet to do some more reading and thinking and fiddling on the whole > thing, before bothering you.... > > Anyway. I guess that I don't clearly understand partioning. > > ( A second after I opened the Linux-Partiton-Howto my draft was sent to > you....) > With the described partitioning, grub seems not to be able to find the > grub-boot-files in /boot/grub which stays within / -Partition on hda7. The > Linux-Boot-Partition was logical - this should be no problem - but in this > case was attached to a first FAT32-Partition ( hda5 ). > May this configuartion is not possible to boot for grub ? > > ( grub-numbering ............. size in MB .......... device-numbering ) > > 0) Hibernation = Hidden Win95 FAT32 ( LBA ) .... 550 ... hda1 = prim > 1) BOOT: Win2000 = Hidden FAT16 ........................... 50 ... hda2 = > prim 2) Exchange = Win95 FAT32 (LBA) .................... 500 ... hda5 = > log1 > > 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 > 9) free ....................................... 1500 ... hda11 = log7 > > Win2000 C:\ > 3) Win2000 ..........NTFS ............. 4450 ... hda3 = prim3 > ( inclusive win-swap ) > > I still don't know if grub numbers the physically sequence or the devices > in line. So hda11 for grub is Partition no. 2 or no 3 ? ( Sure I should > find it out by myself, however now hurrying with a follow-up to my first > premature request....) > > > Next I will try without a special /boot-Partition for Win2000, changing the > partitioning to that: > > > 0) Hibernation = Hidden Win95 FAT32 ( LBA ) .... 550 ... hda1 = prim1 > 1) EXCHANGE = Win95 FAT32 (LBA) .... 500 .... hda3 = prim2 > > Linux-ext2: > > 3) home = linux ext2 ........................... 550 ... hda5 = log1 > 5) / (inkl. /boot ) ............................... 3000 ... hda6 = log2 > 6) var ................................................. 500 ... hda7 = > log3 7) tmp ................................................. 500 ... hda8 > = log4 8) swap_linux .................................... 500 ... hda9 = > log5 9) free ............................................. 1500 ... hda10 > = log6 > > 2) Win2000 = NTFS ......................... 4450 ... hda2 = prim3 > > > > Sorry for the confusion....i work with permanent interruption on that, > rarely find more than a few ten Minutes at once the last weeks....the > problem is that i'm not a computer ;-) -- Michl. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
