On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 13:00, Ryan McLean wrote: > Hello, > > I was reading your excellent installation documentation online, and I > ran into a question. Near the end you're breaking down the commands for > grub, but you leave some information out that I would like to know: > > # Below needed only for people who dual-boot > title=Windows NT Workstation > root (hd0,5) > chainloader +1 > > I'm unclear as to what the (hd0,5) are pointing to, is to say "boot of > off the FAT partition located at partition 5"? Normally MS likes to > reside on the primary partition of the drive, so I just want clarification > on this. For instance, if I have a dual boot, MS on the primary partition > and Gentoo's root at (sd0,3), then I would put root (sd0,1) under my > Windows boot section, correct? And also, what does the chainloader +1 > command do? Thank you fo your time, I'm an old fan of lilo, but I have > been cosidering migrating to a newer bootloader :) I'll take a quick stab at this: First, always add 1 to grub's numbers for disk and partition. The first partition of the first disk is (hd0,0). So, if your Windows is on sda1, the grub parameter is (sd0,0). The chainloader +1 (I think) means to start chain loading the boot loader 1 sector from the start of the specified (root) partition. There's some excellent grub docs at the GNU website: http://www.gnu.org/manual/grub-0.90/grub.html I'd definitely encourage you to move to grub. Writing the boot sector once really is much nicer. I messed up a config file, putting hd(0,0) instead of (hd0,0). With LILO I would've needed to find a boot disc. In grub, I simply edited the boot commands from the menu and merrily went on with the boot. Have fun! Matthew -- Matthew T. Jachimstal | Phone: (419) 861-3331 .~. System Administrator | FAX: (419) 861-3340 /V\ Unique Systems, Inc. | http://www.uniqsys.com // \\ 6920 Spring Valley Drive, Suite 106 | matthew@uniqsys.com /( )\ Holland, OH 43528 | ^`~'^