I understand that I can use grub4dos and add to the menu.lst file the boot parameters. This way I can do frugal installs by copying 4 files or so. I can't seem to understand this enough to get the proper menu.lst commands to boot reliably.
Here is my Menu.lst
# menu.lst produced by grub4dosconfig-v1.8.0
color white/blue black/cyan white/black cyan/black
#splashimage=/splash.xpm
timeout 10
default 0
# Frugal installed Puppies
title Fatdog64 (sda4)
uuid 70008eae6-e062-46e1-ab45-8cdcee478fad
kernel /vmlinuz pmedia=atahd pfix=fsck
initrd /initrd
title Puppy Slacko 5.6.0 (sda4/slacko5.6.0frugal)
find --set-root --ignore-floppies /slacko5.6.0frugal/initrd.gz
kernel /slacko5.6.0frugal/vmlinuz psubdir=slacko5.6.0frugal pmedia=atahd pfix=fsck
initrd /slacko5.6.0frugal/initrd.gz
title Akita Linux, Beta 15, kernel 2.6.25.16 (sda4/Akita-Linux)
rootnoverify (hd0,3)
kernel /Akita-Linux/vmlinuz psubdir=Akita-Linux pmedia=atahd pfix=fsck
initrd /Akita-Linux/initrd.gz
title Browser Linux 501 (sda4/Browser_Linux501)
rootnoverify (hd0,3)
kernel /Browser_Linux501/vmlinuz psubdir=Browser_Linux501 pmedia=atahd pfix=fsck
initrd /Browser_Linux501/initrd.gz
title Lucid Puppy 5.2.8.6 (sda4/Lucid_Puppy5.2.8.6)
rootnoverify (hd0,3)
kernel /Lucid_Puppy5.2.8.6/vmlinuz psubdir=Lucid_Puppy5.2.8.6 pmedia=atahd pfix=fsck
initrd /Lucid_Puppy5.2.8.6/initrd.gz
title Puppy 2.1.7 (sda4/Puppy2.1.7)
rootnoverify (hd0,3)
kernel /Puppy2.1.7/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 psubdir=Puppy2.1.7 pmedia=atahd pfix=fsck
initrd /Puppy2.1.7/initrd.gz
# Advanced Menu
title Advanced menu
configfile /menu-advanced.lst
commandline
I changed my sda4 partition from ext4 to ext2 because I read that some of the older puppies won't boot the ext4. Part of the reason I'm trying to be able to boot the older puppies is because my son is taking a computer repair class in school and his teacher wants him to dual boot the 128meg ram computer with WinXP and Linux.
I will get into some more specifics later but right now, the slacko 5.6.0 and the Browser Linux boots. The Fatdog is giving me a partition type not found error. I put in the new uuid after I changed the filesystem. Where would I put the partition type (I believe it is something to the effect of (0X83)
Fatdog was installed first and the others I put in subdirectories.
Thanks for any guidance.[/code]