Quote Originally Posted by Josh83
thanks, but that's no option for me. anyway grub does not list any bootable disks, it only tells me that i can show some stuff with TAB...
Grub is probably one of the best boot loader I know and I have tried so far. [Tab] gives you the list of the shell command you can use and a man grub will tell you more about it. A menu.lst file is usually created by the grub installer and is similar to the lilo.conf in order to preset a nice "user readable" opton menu you can select from. You can obviously create one on your own or modify an existing one. As for xp, grub can load and start the boot sector of your ntfs partition and boot xp (ntldr...) You can also boot from floppy disk files images, from the network, from kernel and ramdisk, from partition bootsectors, you can even logically swap partitions to run more than one win98/me system running as a c:\ drive, ... Grub cannot just list any bootable partition. Grub needs some help to set it up, but grub gives you all the tools to make it work (rootnoverify (hdx,y), chainloader +1 , boot, ...) [tab] can also be used for autocompletion and is very usefull to get a list of partitions as an example, but you should know which ones are bootable or not. Well just have a look at the grub reference documentation. I have been using other bootloaders in the past, "gag" being one of my preference, but I now use grub everywhere.
Hope this helps, Gilles