Re: Grub replaces Lilo, old OSes now gone

From: lawall (lawall_at_xmission.com)
Date: 01/21/04 

Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 10:21:42 -0700

Styvaen wrote:
>
> Now assuming that your boot and root partition are one and the same on the
> first partition of your first hard drive then you would have
>
> kernel (hd0,0)/boot/linux-2.4.22-mdk19 root=/dev/hda1

That did it. I recalled enough of the bits-n-stuff from my last install
to make it fairly simple. Of course, everything like this seems simple
after you wade through it.

> you might also want to append to the line other options like
>
> hdc=ide-scsi vga=788

Why would I want to do that? It boots without those parameters, but if
they're helpful...

Thank you very much! But I still can't get my Windows to load, and I'll
need that for certain things. 

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