Re: How do I add a partition to Grub?

From: SrBueno (dhgood_at_cfl.rr.com)
Date: 04/23/04 

Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 19:52:25 GMT

BeFaS wrote:

> Hi!
> I wish to add a third OS to my Grub bootloader but donīt know how to do.
> Itīs a Linux ext2 partition placed on hda6
>
> The OS that now starts with Grub is WinXP at hda1 and Red Hat at hda8.
> Both of these were configured at installation of RedHat.
>
> I donīt understand the way Grub give the name to partitions. I believe
> that Grub wantīs to call my third partition for (hd1.6)
> Is that right?
> My vmlinuz is placed in /boot/vmlinuz at hda6
>
> Thanks for help
>
> //BeFaS
Here is my /boot/grub/menu.lst

# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Fri Jun 27 07:17:53 2003

color white/blue black/light-gray
default 1
gfxmenu (hd0,9)/boot/message
timeout 8

title Knoppix
    kernel (hd1,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb2 quiet devfs=mount
hde=ide-scsi acpi=off vga=791

title Mandrake 9.1
    kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 quiet devfs=mount hde=ide-scsi
acpi=off vga=791
    initrd (hd0,0)/initrd.img

title Mandrake 10.0rc1
    kernel (hd2,2)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdd3 quiet devfs=mount acpi=off
vga=791
    initrd (hd2,2)/boot/initrd.img

title PCLinuxOS
    kernel (hd0,10)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda11 quiet devfs=mount
hde=ide-scsi acpi=off vga=791
    initrd (hd0,10)/boot/initrd.img

title RedHat 9.0
    kernel (hd1,4)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb5 quiet devfs=mount
hde=ide-scsi acpi=off vga=791
    initrd (hd1,4)/boot/initrd-2.4.20-20.9.img

title SuSE
    kernel (hd0,9)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda10 vga=0x317 hde=ide-scsi
hdelun=0 splash=silent showopts
    initrd (hd0,9)/boot/initrd

title Vector
    kernel (hd1,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 quiet hde=ide-scsi acpi=off
vga=791

title BeOS
    rootnoverify (hd2,5)
    chainloader +1

title floppy
    root (fd0)
    chainloader +1

title failsafe
    kernel (hd0,10)/boot/vmlinuz.shipped root=/dev/hda11 showopts ide=nodma
apm=off acpi=off vga=normal nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 3
    initrd (hd0,10)/boot/initrd.shipped

/* NOTE some of the previous lines have wrapped */

And /boot/grub/device.map

(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/hda
(hd1) /dev/hdb
(hd2) /dev/hdd

/* NOTE partitions on a device are zero (0) relative, i.e. the first
partition on hda, using my device map, is (hd0,0) while the last partition
(11) is (hd0,10) */

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