[LBo] Re: Installing Linux on a second drive.

[Geoff Jones]

Anita Lewis wrote:-

>  I can't see how menu.lst would get found unless grub was 
> reinstalled after the move of the drive.  I know that when you install 
> grub to the MBR or wherever, it shows the device.map and asks you if 
> that is accurate.  That makes me think that you would at the very least 
> need to edit device.map and reinstall grub.

I was assuming that I would still have a working version of grub on mbr - 
hd(0,0) - and could simply  edit one boot entry [ ie hdc to hdb ] in the grub 
command line.
[ Failing that, use my trusty Knoppix to mount hdb + then edit the necessary 
files to get one distro up and running ].
Like I said, I will wait til I "rationalize" my distros - but thanks for all 
the suggestions - I have filed for future reference.

Meanwhile, I have a less complicated question.
I am running Debian Sarge ( which I think you do ) with Gnome + Kde gui's.
I have been using gdm, which seems to give issues in Kde e.g. does not seem to 
"remember" previous Kde settings on booting.
So I downloaded kdm and made this default.
This gives me its login screen, but will not let me log in as user or root -  
[ just presents new login screen ]. I can use the menu to do a "console 
login" + then startx gets a gnome desktop, but I can't get kde to run.
Do I need to do more than make kdm default in order to change desk-top 
managers?

Geoff.