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    Help booting mandrake install with grub...

    I need to get my mandrake 10 install to boot through grub. I installed kanotix and the grub installer did not recognize the mandrake install, which uses lilo, and now I cannot configure the menu.1st properly for it to boot. It is on hda1, windows on hda2, hda3 -swap, hda4 - kanotix. Here are the entries for the menu.1st:

    title Kanotix
    root (hd0,3)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8.1-kanotix-5 root=/dev/hda4 ro ramdisk_size=100000 lang=us apm=power-off hda=scsi hdb=scsi hdc=scsi hdd=scsi hde=scsi hdf=scsi hdg=scsi hdh=scsi nomce vga=791
    savedefault
    boot

    title Mandrake
    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /mnt/hda1/boot/initrd.img root=/dev/hda1 devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent vga=788
    boot

    #title Mandrake
    #root (hd0,0)
    #kernel /mnt/hda1/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8.1-10mdk root=/dev/hda1 devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent vga=788
    #boot

    ### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
    #title Mandrake
    #root (hd0,0)
    #kernel /mnt/hda1/boot/initrd.img root=/dev/hda1 devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent vga=788
    #boot

    title WindowsXP
    rootnoverify (hd0,1)
    makeactive
    chainloader +1
    savedefault

    I've tried all of what is commented out and I get the following error:

    root (hd0,0)
    Filesystem type is ext2fs partition type is 0x83
    Kernel /mnt/hda1/boot/ initrd.img vga= 0 x317 root = /dev/hda1 devfs=mount
    acpi=ht splash=silent vga=788
    Error 15: File not found

    Press any key to continue...

    I don't know why the vga=0 x 317 is in there. I know it is there in the mandrake lilo.conf file but don't know how or why it appears in the grub menu.1st.

    Any help would be appreciated.

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    I am more comfortable with lilo myself, but the following looks plausible:
    Code:
    title Mandrake 
    root (hd0,0) 
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8.1-10mdk root=/dev/hda1 devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent vga=788 
    initrd /boot/initrd.img 
    boot
    PS: grub's config file is called menu.lst, not menu.1st

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    I did the reverse and reinstalled kanotix then mandrake and used mandrakes lilo to boot and now it works. Thanks for the help.

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