Re: Linux mandrake GRUB version 0.5.95

[Jochen Hoenicke]

On Feb 13, Shae Mackie wrote:
> hi
> i recently purchased linux mandrake and installed it onto my second
> ide drive on a second partition.I have win 98 on my main drive with
> no partition. i have an IBM aptiva 572-2174 96 ram and 500mhz athlon
> k7. well after installing it it keeps gojng to a screen of black
> background and white lettering
>         " GRUB version 0.5.95  (639k lower / 97152k upper memory)
> [...]
> 
> grub>
> 
> 
> [...] i ahve no clue what commands im suppose to use ive tried
> them all and nothing that i can fugure out has worked i want to be
> able to have the choice of either windows to boot or linux at
> startup..

To boot windows type these three commands:

root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
boot

For linux you have to know where the kernel image [b]zImage or vmlinuz
is. Use the TAB-key to complete names or get directory listings:

root (hd1,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb2
boot

For more information about these commands see the grub manual, which
is in the distribution.  You should create a menu.lst in the same
directory in which stage2 is residing, probably /boot/grub, there is
an example for menu.lst in the distribution.  It should contain
something like:

title Windows
<commands for windows>
title Linux
<commands for linux>

  Jochen