Hi everyone,

I'm not sure if this is possible, but I would like to configure menu's
in the GRUB bootloader that came with SUSE Linux 10.0.
I'm running a multiple-boot system, with the following operating
systems installed: SUSE Linux 10.0, Red Hat Fedora Core 5, Microsoft
Windows XP and Microsft Windows Vista Beta 2. Instead of getting 4 (or
more) choices every time I start the system, I would preffer if I could

first select Linux or Windows in a main menu, and accordingly the
desired operating system in a submenu. This means that I'd get two
choices to start with, and once I selected Linux or Windows, another
two choices (between the different systems installed).
Is this possible? Can you give any advice on how to do this?
(shell-scripts or similair are no problem)


Thanks.

elesser wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm not sure if this is possible, but I would like to configure menu's
> in the GRUB bootloader that came with SUSE Linux 10.0.
> I'm running a multiple-boot system, with the following operating
> systems installed: SUSE Linux 10.0, Red Hat Fedora Core 5, Microsoft
> Windows XP and Microsft Windows Vista Beta 2. Instead of getting 4 (or
> more) choices every time I start the system, I would preffer if I
> could
>
> first select Linux or Windows in a main menu, and accordingly the
> desired operating system in a submenu. This means that I'd get two
> choices to start with, and once I selected Linux or Windows, another
> two choices (between the different systems installed).
> Is this possible? Can you give any advice on how to do this?
> (shell-scripts or similair are no problem)

I think you're asking for trouble. LILO and grub behavior is deliberately
simple to keep it robust and easily stuffed into small Linux distributions:
adding multiple menus sounds awkward.

In message <MI6dnXZpheAdOjDZnZ2dnUVZ_sGdnZ2d@comcast.com>
"Nico Kadel-Garcia" <nkadel@comcast.net> wrote:

> elesser wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I'm not sure if this is possible, but I would like to configure menu's
>> in the GRUB bootloader that came with SUSE Linux 10.0.
>> I'm running a multiple-boot system, with the following operating
>> systems installed: SUSE Linux 10.0, Red Hat Fedora Core 5, Microsoft
>> Windows XP and Microsft Windows Vista Beta 2. Instead of getting 4 (or
>> more) choices every time I start the system, I would preffer if I
>> could
>>
>> first select Linux or Windows in a main menu, and accordingly the
>> desired operating system in a submenu. This means that I'd get two
>> choices to start with, and once I selected Linux or Windows, another
>> two choices (between the different systems installed).
>> Is this possible? Can you give any advice on how to do this?
>> (shell-scripts or similair are no problem)
>
> I think you're asking for trouble. LILO and grub behavior is deliberately
> simple to keep it robust and easily stuffed into small Linux distributions:
> adding multiple menus sounds awkward.
>
>

The simple way, and the default in most cases, is to allow the
installer to set up GRUP with a choice of Linux versions plus a
Windows version. Choosing Windows then uses the contents of boot.ini
to present a Windows boot menu. This doesn't get quite what you want,
but it is simple, and pretty standard.

You might find that the installer has detected both windows versions
and put them into GRUB - in that case I would first try editing the
boot.ini in one of the Windows versions to get it to offer a choice,
and when that is successful, change the grub config file so it only
offers that version of Windows (and change the description maybe to
"Windows boot menu")



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