On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 02:48:32PM +0200, Doncho N. Gunchev wrote: > On Wednesday 10 March 2004 07:24, Denham Eva wrote: > > Hello, > > > > New to fedora and have installed it, grub was default (I don't remember being able to choose lilo), It asked to create a boot disk, which I did. When the installation completed the harddisk comes up with a grub prompt at which I can't do much(or should I say, I don't know what to do). It however does boot from Floppy drive. > > > > Now I usually use lilo with all my Redhat servers, so I don't know grub at all. > > After reading the man page I soon realized I had no clue. > > I am also too afraid to try and "play" with it as I might loose my WinXP partition. > > So can anyone help me out with the synatx of the grub.conf file? > > > > My machines configuration is as follows > > /dev/hda1 WinXP partition. > > /dev/hda2 / > > > > How do I write grub to MBR so that it will run at bootup? > > > > Many Thanks, any help will be appreciated. > > Regards > > Denham Eva > > > Try this: > --- /etc/grub.conf --- > #boot=/dev/hda > default=0 > timeout=10 > #splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > title Fedora Core 1 (2.4.xx-xxx) > root (hd0,1) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.xx-xxxx ro root=LABEL=/ > initrd /initrd-2.4.xx-xxxx.img > title Windowx XYZ > rootnoverify (hd0,0) > chainloader +1 > makeactive > boot > --- cut --- Actually you don't need the makeactive and boot lines eiter. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
