Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 14:33:07 02/14/04
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On February 14, 2004 at 14:31:44, margolies,marc wrote:
>Hi All.
>I have SUSE linux9pro for AMD_64 running on my new opteron system now.
>I added an IDE drive for this purpose as the standard install wont see SATA
>drives--at least mine.
>My question concerns using GRUB to see my SATA drive (this is the drive which
>boots on WinXP-Pro )so that I can have startup choices without rigging the
>system bios flash settings in favor of the SATA drive and windows (and using a
>dvd to start the linux bootstrap).
>Any suggestions?
>thanks, Marc
Here is what I do, and it works really fine:
* Install each OS so it will use the boot record from its own partition, NOT the
Master Boot Record (MBR) of the disk (XP will do that anyway, and you can
configure Linux to install GRUB in the first sector of its partition, not in the
MBR).
* Use RANISH PARTITION MANAGER to install a compact menu in the MBR. You can set
the default partition to boot and the number of seconds to wait for user input
before starting this default partition. You do not have to create a special
partition to store the boot menu program, because the compact boot manager of
RANISH PARTITION MANAGER fits in the 512 bytes of the MBR.
Now when you boot you can type the number of the partition to start the
corresponding OS, or do nothing and let the default OS start after the specified
delay.
You will not use GRUB anymore to select the OS you want to start. So there is no
need to tell GRUB what other OSes are installed. However you will still be able
to use GRUB to start the version of the kernel of your choice (assuming you have
installed several kernels).
If you have only one kernel, GRUB is not useful for you. Just edit
/etc/grub.conf and set the timeout to 0 so GRUB will start Linux without asking
you anything.
Do a Google search to find RANISH PARTITION MANAGER, it is a very useful tool.
Christophe
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