MR.T Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 I use a SATA drive for Linux and Windows. Today I added a IDE drive and I installed Kubuntu without GRUB( just wanted to try out kde4). I want to add an entry to the GRUB on my SATA for booting the Linux off the IDE HDD. How do I do this? I installed qgrubeditor but it still wants me to enter info on what kernel to boot with etc. And I'm not that experienced with Linux. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted January 13, 2008 Veteran Share Posted January 13, 2008 Well, I don't know what your partitioning is, so I can only post some general advice, and you will have to modify it to be specific to your installation. Assuming you boot XP and and existing Linux from GRUB already, you just need to make a new entry in the /boot/grub/menu.lst file, like this: root (hd1,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.00-00-whatever ro root=/dev/hda1 initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.00-00-whatever The "root (hd?,?)" should point to wherever grub sees your IDE drive, and the partition that holds your /boot/ directory. The "kernel" and "initrd" lines should point to the exact filenames for your kernel and initalrd files inside your Kubuntu /boot/ directory. The additional "root=" option on the kernel line should (optionally?) point to whereever your main filesystem appears on that IDE drive. Hope that helps point you enough in the direction you need to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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