need to modify grub for geexbox with DSL installed

[racepres]

Long title for a newbie huh?
I had geexbox installed on a compaq evo n115. Loaded a really nice interface at start-up and either went into geexbox, if selected, or automatically selected xp and started that.
Now I have put Damn Small Linux onto yet another partition. It boots grub with a less "cool" interface, allows DSL boot, or XP, but don't offer Geexbox.
Question is.. can I get back my Geexbox GUI and have XP, DSL, and geexbox come up as options?
I think I have a clue.. as originally geexbox was at hda5 and XP at hda1
Now XP is still at hda1, DSL is at hda5 and geexbox is at hda6.
I am considering running the geexbox installer again to see... but aint feeling "lucky" cause so far I have been extremely "Lucky"
So close, but yet far away for a guy who is in Wayyyy over his head!!
BTW I am so shiney new that I require fairly specific guidance.
Thanks.. And Sorry so long for a "Howdy, here I am", First Post
RP

[yancek]

If you were booting Geexbox and xp previously from Geexbox and now get the DSL boot menu, it is because you installed DSL Grub to the master boot record.

Question is.. can I get back my Geexbox GUI and have XP, DSL, and geexbox come up as options?

The answer to the above is yes.

What you should do is go into the DSL /boot/grub/menu.lst file and copy the entries for DSL. You will then need to copy the DSL entries to the menu.lst file of Geekbox, assuming it boots with Grub?

Can you boot DSL and log in as root (type su or su - at the prompt) and run the command: fdisk -l, lower case Letter L, not a one, post the output here and someone should be able to tell you exactly what to do.

I took a brief look at the Geekbox site but saw no mention of bootloader used, but assumed Grub?

[racepres]

Update: I went ahead and tried reloading geexbox. Got back to the GUI on a splash screen, the one I want to keep on boot, My DSL Kernel is Not an option however. I went with the "c" option and typed in
configfile (hd0,4)/boot/grub/menu.lst
Got the GUI I would normally get for DSL. Now I'm getting somewhere...
I now need to know how to modify the geexbox interface to put an option for my dsl kernel on that splash screen.
Hmmmm You don't suppose it might actually be there, but it's somehow under the screen?? Sheesh I better quit fore I make myself crazy er
RP

[racepres]

Sorry Yancek. I was typin whilst you were.
Now how does one get into DSL /boot/grub/menu.lst file?
I am onto what you are saying.. and if it was my trusty mac I think I could do it...
I'll get the fdisk -l for ya asap
Thanks bunches
RP

[jayd512]

Hi, racepres! Welcome to the Forums!

Now how does one get into DSL /boot/grub/menu.lst file?

Quite easy! Just open a terminal, execute

cd /boot/grub
cat menu.lst

That will display the file. Copy the output for us, post it here.
To edit this file,

vim menu.lst

[racepres]

OK cause I don't remember how to do screen shots...
hda1......1 - 2396.......................system 7.......NTFS
hda2......2396 - 2432..................system f........win95 Ext'd (LBA)
hda5......2396 - 2423..................system83.......Linux
hda6......2424 - 2432..................system83.......Linux
Yea I left out the Blocks... But you get the idea, I hope
RP

[racepres]

OK Jayd512!
Now were talkin', again whilst I'm typin, pretty fast aint I?
In liu of typin all that cause I haven't got the screenshot thing yet.. aint had time!
That boot menu is my typical DSL boot grub screen, and is what I want to copy to the geexbox grub on hda6.
Ya spose it's as easy as copy paste to the geexbox grub? since that's the one I want, and it's working now??
I think I like it here!!!
RP

[racepres]

Shoot... silly me. The geexbox grub must be in the MBR. Finally sunk in to me Yancek. Ok I'm 1 post from where I wanna be.
I want to copy what I got from
cd /boot/grub
cat menu.lst
to the copy of grub that's in the MBR now. or at least a shortcut to it I guess. Easy to say.. how do I do it??
Thanks for yer patience guys. RP

[racepres]

So I lied about the 1 post.
Update where I'm at.
Machine start-up [cold boot] brings me to the geexbox grub splash with "play" options or Windoze XP, XP will default boot if no action taken in a few seconds.
At this grub splash screen I can type c and go to a command line, where I type configfile (hd0,4)/boot/grub/menu.lst This takes me to the DSL grub menu, a few dsl options as well as WinXP.
And for some reason most of the "splash background" from geexbox grub is still there! Now anyone else would prolly be happy here... Me, I want a "shortcut" to the DSL grub, instead of typin, which I decidedly suck at. What say Ye?
Tremendous Thanks for the help thusfar, I may yet accidently learn Linux, which BTW, I am using more and more.. Like Now!
RP

[devils casper]

Could you post the contents of /boot/grub/menu.lst file here, as suggested earlier?