Revising a menu.lst

[yamawho]

I was looking over the Mandriva install screens and I saw two grub install options, one to MBR and the other to root.

So if I understand this correctly, once I install it, it will not boot without 3 or 4 chainloader lines ?

This is new ground for me ...

[Fred]

yamawho,

That is correct. You would have to open the Mint /boot/grub/menu.lst and add these lines just before or just after your Windows chainloder lines.

This is one of my chainloader entries:


title Kbuntu Gutsy 7.10
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

There is one possible "gotcha" that can pop up from time to time. Some times the versions of grub aren't compatible between distros and the new distro will not boot. If this occurs just open a terminal in Mint and type:

sudo grub

root (hd0,0)

setup (hd0,0)

quit


Of course you would have to change the hard drive and partition notation to whatever applies to you but that should make everything work right.

Hope this was a little bit helpful.

Fred

[yamawho]

Thanks for the response Fred.

I need to ponder my next move ...

[Fred]

You are welcome sir. If you have a problem I'll be happy to try to help out.

Fred