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Multiple hard drives, multiple O/S's

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by obronknob

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I am trying to set up three hard drives and three operating systems.
IDE-0 XP

IDE-1 Win 2000

IDE-2 SuSE

After I have loaded SuSE on the hardrive, it seems to work fine from the intital install. But once I re-boot the machine either withor without the other O's plugged in. When the macnine boot's up the word "GRUB" appears. Nothing else. At this point linux will not run. I loaded this to boot from a floppy. Any ideas how I can set this up correctly

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by trat1

... the boot loader for Linux. I'm a real n00b when it comes to Linux based O/Ss so I require more detail to even begin to help :D

by vncoder

G'day,
You will need to setup grub on your
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=69032

4. Boot up with rescue boot floppy disk
5. log in and enter grub interactive shell
$grub
6. install grub on the MBR of disk 2
grub>root (hd0,1)
grub>install /grub/stage1 d (hd0) /grub/stage2 0x8000 p /grub/grub.conf
Note: /boot is on the second partition hence the 1
7. Reboot using disk 2
This grub menu should shows up

replace "disk 2" with your linux disk.

Regards,
VNCoder

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