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Add it just like an OS, with a CD in the drive.

 

rootnoverify (....)

chainloader +1

 

 

that doesn't seem to work

i don't know what the problem is really

i have three hard drives

two sata, one pata

hd0,1 - suse - labled sda

hd1,0 - windows - labled hda

hd2,0 - osx - labled sdb

cd-rom shows up as hdb

 

i found there is no correlation between the sd/hd_, and hd_,_ as the hd#,# represents the order in which my bios lists the drives, then the partition #

so what would be the correct hd# to add my cd-rom to grub (hd3,0 doesn't work)?

thanks

Press whatever key it is that accesses the interactive GRUB prompt and try pressing tab to autocomplete when you do rootnoverify (<tab>. It might not necessarily be hd_,_...

 

I also don't know anything about your BIOS setup or anything or why you want to do this with GRUB. So I guess this could help out.

It should just automatically boot off of cd before grub loades through your bios, just set the cd/dvd drive as the first boot priority and then whenever yoou have a bootable disk in the drive at turnon it will boot to that and not even start grub.. its a bios thing, not a grub thing.

 

 

 

max

Well, there are reasons for doing it, like BIOS not supporting boot from CD.

 

I bet there are other ways to do it, of course, I just don't know any.

 

 

You have a point... boot into linux and you have to edit this file : /boot/grub/menu.lst let me do some more research on what to add but that is the file that tells grub what to list on boot.

 

 

max

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