Re: [opensuse] LILO/Grub Problem

On Friday 02 February 2007 05:08, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Bob S wrote:
No good. I can boot Win98 and my new 10.2 but not my old 10.0.

Not a big problem probably.

Not in the
menu.

Hi Joe, thanks for replying. Hope you can bail me out yet another time.

Just mount your 10.0 boot directory (if on it own partition or if in /)
so you can compare the 10.0 grub device map and menu.lst, and add the
correct entry to the menu.lst in the 10.2 grub, where it already boots
from and already has an entry for win98 and 10.2.

Well that is the problem. I can't mount 10.0. It is on a completely separate
hard drive. Even if I find out how to do that, I don't have a 10.0 grub
device map. I was using LILO to mount 10.0

Can't even boot it from the DVD.

What do you mean here?

When I put the 10.0 DVD into the machine and boot the installed system it
boots 10.2 and I have not figured out how to mount 10.0 Figured I could use
Yast to fix it.

Think I could fix it from within 10.2 ?? Trouble is, I know absolutely
nothing about grub. Been using lilo all of these years.

Bob S
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