Install three systems with GRUB
Author: Jian Qi from the bully: Blue ideal
RedHat9 and Mandrake 9.1 have been released separately in the last month, and the author as the fanthatic enthusiasts of Linux, certainly can't let go such a good opportunity, download, engraved ing ... but if they get together, using GRUB is the most Good way, because it is the redhat default installation, GRUB is, which is the system's boot program, use it to guide the three systems, no problem, nor to find another toll software everywhere. First, there are two hard drives in the partition my computer. The basic idea is 80G for WIN system, 10G hard drives 2 Linux systems, the first hard disk already has a Win2K system, if you only have a hard drive, you can use PQ points An empty area comes out, then draw a swap partition in the empty area, the format is / swap, the size is typically 1.5 times the memory, if your memory is 512M or the exchange partition and the memory size is the same, then Two size of the root partition of about 5 g, format the EXT3. The advantage of this is that when the Linux system is installed, the WIN system does not become very slow because it does not recognize the EXT3 format. Second, installing Linux systems Now installing Linux is very convenient, as long as the prompts on the screen are in the screen, the system installation does not divide, but install the grub on the MBR of the hard disk HDA1 when installing redhat9, install Mandrake9.1 LILO or GRUB is OK on the first sector to / boot. In Linux, the primary partition is HDA1, the primary partition of the second hard disk is HDB1, and the logical partition starts from HDA5. If there are two hard drives, it may be starting from HDB5, so pushing in this class. If you don't know what is going on, use fdisk -l or DF-LA to view. To install the system, there will be the corresponding installation location, which is also the HDAX or HDBX partition, and there is no WIN's C and D disk under Linux. Third, the modification of the Grub.conf system is installed, but now only boots the RedHat9 and WIN system, you must change / boot/grub/grub.conf to allow the three systems to run normally, use root users to enter the system, first use fdisk -ld View your partition situation in the terminal, know the partition situation is good, use any file editor to open /boot/grub/grub.conf, in general, the Win system will automatically load into the grub, below is the author's GRUB.CONF file, let's analyze default = 0timeout = 10splashImage = (HD1, 2) /BOOT/grub/splash.xpm.gztitle Windows2k rootnoverified (HD0, 0) CHAINLOADER 1TITLE RedHat9 root (HD1, 2) kernel / boot /VMLINUZ-2.4.20-8 RO ROOT = label = / initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.imgtitle Mandrake9.1kernel (HD1, 4) / boot / vmlinuz root = / dev / hdb5 quiet devfs = mount ACPI = OFF VGA = 788Initrd (HD1, 4) /Boot/initrd.img default = X is the default start-up system, 0 is the first system, which is pushed.
