Grub not working

[chris]

On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 08:05 +0800, Goh Lip wrote:
> On 05/06/2011 07:57 AM, chris wrote:
> > My experience is
> > that grub any variety  never has picked up a partition earlier than xp.
> > However I have chain loaded to a 98 partition in the past.  Just can't
> > remember how.
> >
> 
> 
> If my memory serves me right, grub-legacy may have problems with picking 
> up OS that needs chainloading (usually Wins) regardless of which OS or 
> versions. That's why there is always a need to manually edit menu.lst 
> after each change of OS.
> 
> To me, having ease of editing menu.lst cannot beat having no need to 
> change anything (I thought it's obvious). If there is a need to change, 
> something's broke.
> 
> Regards - Goh Lip
> 
> 
> 

Agreed, and when I think this through a bit further, I have never tried
to detect a 98 partition with grub 2.  Only grub 1
might throw 98 onto a partition this after noon and see what happens.
Regards Chris