Re: Booting Suse 7.3

[Leendert Meyer]

On Friday 30 November 2001 22:46, you wrote:
> I have installed Suse 7.3 on my computer and want to boot it with grub.
>
> this is what lilo.conf looks like in the Suse partition.
>
> boot  = /dev/hda5
> vga   = 791
> read-only
> menu-scheme = Wg:kw:Wg:Wg
> lba32
> prompt
> timeout       = 80
> message       = /boot/message
>
>   image  = /boot/vmlinuz
>   label  = linux
>   root   = /dev/hda5
>   initrd = /boot/initrd
>   append = "enableapic vga=0x0317"
>

Not everything is "translatable", but this should be sufficient.
Save it (as root) as "/boot/grub/menu.lst".
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# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Boot menu configuration file
#
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Change colors
color white/green black/white

timeout 8 # seconds

default saved

fallback 0

# noapic/disableapic

# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# SuSE Linux 7.3 on /dev/hda5
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

title  SuSE Linux 7.3 on /dev/hda5, 1024x768-16
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 enableapic vga=0x0317
initrd /boot/initrd
savedefault

# Maybe, just maybe you like to know how to boot DOS/W2000.
# Uncomment next section:

##----------------------------------------------------------------------------
## Windows 2000
##----------------------------------------------------------------------------

#title Windows 2000
#rootnoverify (hd0,0)
#makeactive
#chainloader +1
## For loading DOS if Windows NT is installed
#chainload (hd0,0)/bootsect.nt

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Hope this helps,

Leen