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grub menu.lst for DOS, WinXP, FreeBSD, Linux

My notebook partitions and boot loader settings

fdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 1020 8193118+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 1021 1530 4096575 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda3 * 1531 2040 4096575 a5 FreeBSD
/dev/hda4 2041 4864 22683780 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 2041 2550 4096543+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 2551 3060 4096543+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 3061 4782 13831933+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda8 4783 4864 658633+ 82 Linux swap

Grub menu.lst

default=0
timeout=5

title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

title FreeBSD 5.0
root (hd0,2)
makeactive
chainloader +1

title Red Hat 9.0
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ vga=791
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img

title Mandrake 10.0
kernel (hd0,5)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 devfs=mount quiet vga=791
initrd (hd0,5)/boot/initrd.img

Posted by pank at September 19, 2004 07:57 PM