Oops

[Myles Green]

On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 23:47, koko wrote:
> Keith aka Skippy aka Gandalf (has DHS checked all these out yet?)  , you are 
> my hero.  Thank you.  All is well now, and my kin will be able to access XP 
> to their hearts content, not knowing the near miss with my continued 
> experimentation.  Ah hell, its only games and e-mails anyway on their part, 
> and I back up their mail....  But I hesitated at following your instructions 
> to the letter.  Not to belabour the point, but why would I not have 
> maintained consistency with what my own system said [root (hd1,0)] and 
> followed yours [root (hd0,0)]?   Did it make any difference or was the 
> [title] entry the key to success?    In the end, I did follow your 
> instructions and it worked.  So once again, thanks.  

OK, your system has 2 hard drives, correct? RedHat is on the second
drive and XP is on the first. In your menu.list it has "root (hd1,0)" in
the Red Hat entry - the hd1=second drive and the 0 means first
partition. Thus, with XP being on the first drive, it has to be hd0 and
assuming it's also on the first (only?) partition on the drive, 0= first
partition

To sum it all up, disks are numbered from hd0 upwards with hd0=1st drive
and hd1=2nd drive, hd2=3rd drive and so on. Partitions are also
"numbered" the same way.

HTH,
-- 
Myles Green <myles-green at shaw.ca>