On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 11:57:44 +0530, varun wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 10:34, vidiyala prashanth wrote: > > I have two versions of kernel 2.4.21-4.EL and 2.4.20 > > what does EL stand for? > EL stands for enterprise linux. > > i'd like to have both the versions in my boot prompt. > > i have a dual boot system (win98 & red hat linux(9.1) kernel : > > 2.4.21-4.EL) > Assuming that you have a compiled kernel in /boot dir. > To make sure check if you have bzImage in /boot. Except it's called vmlinuz in /boot! (it is installed this way by make install in kernel source) > All you have to do is open /etc/grub.conf Pardon me, but most systems really have /boot/grub/menu.lst (as is grub default). Even Debian does, though it's violation of FHS -- but it is necessary as /boot is sometimes the only partition accessible to grub (eg. if bios can't handle the whole disk, only beginning part of it). > in the file add the following lines > title <give any name want eg:2.4.20> > root (hd0,1) /*This may differ in your system*/ > kernel /boot/bzImage ro root=/dev/hda2 /*the root= must be > chosen based on the root partition of your linux. > to check this use fdisk -l command and figure out. > > > i'd like to add the third one in my GRUB for kernel 2.4.20 > > how do i do that?please guide Tried reading grub documentation? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@xxxxxx>
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