Re: just wanna switch the menu.lst for grub in the mbr to read

From: Paul Scott (paslist_at_ultrasw.com)
Date: 09/30/05

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    BUYO-BUYO-IGOR wrote:

    >have DeMuDi(Sarge) in one partition
    >had Slackware in another
    >installed plain Sarge to that another one
    >was happy with the grub in mbr
    >which searches for he menu.lst in the /boot/grub of that
    >plain Sarge
    >but now am willing to bring back Slack again to where that
    >menu.lst is
    >so i want grub to look for the menu.lst which DeMuDi's
    >partition keeps
    >can i make it behave like that from a command from DeMuDi
    >?
    >
    >
    Reinstall grub to the mbr from the system that contains the menu.lst you
    want to use or copy the menu.lst that you like to each /boot/grub

    HTH,

    Paul Scott

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