Good Morning OP and all that have helped in my post. As you may have noticed I was on this forum to early morning, so with a fresher brain, and coffee, I will try again to explain what I am trying to accomplish
I have always liked reading your posts in the last 2 years that I have used PCLOS,the only linux I haved used, learned alot, but I might sometimes misuse the wording. I know to put grub in the windows partition, (hd0,0) perhaps because I have dual booted many times for several reasons. I know you are the ultimate teacher, and will refine my knowledge at the end of the day, but I am perplexed what more info I can give you.In this case I could understand and learn, by the solution observed, where I could dissect the end results.
I did use a chainloader stanza for Windows ( stanza 5)only,and I thought I have explained how I got to where I am today. I first installed Windows, then PCLOS with K4, set up grub in the Windows partition. Then I installed PCLOS K3 in another partition and set up grub in the Windows partition where the original grub was (hd0,0). What I forgot to mention Window7 was not recognized by grub ( a quirk with Win7) so I put the entry in by hand ( in both Boot Screens) and then it was recognized. The menu.lst that are from boot > grub > menu.lst are the exact duplicates of what is found in each version KDE3 and KDE4. After the bios screen the computer goes to the first boot menu which gives me a choice of each version of PCLOS with its respective KDE, an alternate kernel, and Windows7.
Since I have PCLOS K3 as my default desktop, as it is called in PCC, I press enter usually, or wait 5 seconds. If I wish to go to KDE4 I scroll down to KDE4 which is at the bottom of the list. This brings me to a NEW boot menu with a choice of either PCLOS KDE versions, and Windows 7.
Is it possible to go directly into PCLOS K4 from the first BOOT SCREEN ? I copied KDE3 and KDE4 men.lst again below.
This is my menu.lst from PCLOS KDE4
timeout 6
color black/cyan yellow/cyan
gfxmenu (hd0,7)/boot/gfxmenu
default 0
title PCLinuxOS KDE4
kernel (hd0,7)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=PCLinuxOS_KDE4 root=UUID=338bfe6e-6e12-4096-ad54-7575eb8d506a acpi=on resume=UUID=f0016d67-3fac-49f1-b05f-1faf59720327 splash=verbose vga=788
initrd (hd0,7)/boot/initrd.img
title linux-nonfb
kernel (hd0,7)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux-nonfb root=UUID=338bfe6e-6e12-4096-ad54-7575eb8d506a acpi=on resume=UUID=f0016d67-3fac-49f1-b05f-1faf59720327 splash=verbose
initrd (hd0,7)/boot/initrd.img
title failsafe
kernel (hd0,7)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=failsafe root=UUID=338bfe6e-6e12-4096-ad54-7575eb8d506a failsafe acpi=on
initrd (hd0,7)/boot/initrd.img
title windows
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
title linux
kernel (hd0,7)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=338bfe6e-6e12-4096-ad54-7575eb8d506a acpi=on resume=UUID=f0016d67-3fac-49f1-b05f-1faf59720327 splash=verbose vga=788
initrd (hd0,7)/boot/initrd.img
title 2.6.27.29.tex1
kernel (hd0,7)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.29.tex1 BOOT_IMAGE=2.6.27.29.tex1 root=UUID=338bfe6e-6e12-4096-ad54-7575eb8d506a acpi=on resume=UUID=f0016d67-3fac-49f1-b05f-1faf59720327 splash=verbose vga=788
initrd (hd0,7)/boot/initrd-2.6.27.29.tex1.img
title 2.6.27.31.tex5
kernel (hd0,7)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.31.tex5 BOOT_IMAGE=2.6.27.31.tex5 root=UUID=338bfe6e-6e12-4096-ad54-7575eb8d506a acpi=on resume=UUID=f0016d67-3fac-49f1-b05f-1faf59720327 splash=verbose vga=788
initrd (hd0,7)/boot/initrd-2.6.27.31.tex5.img
PCLOS KDE3 menu.lst
timeout 5
color black/cyan yellow/cyan
gfxmenu (hd0,1)/boot/gfxmenu
default 0
title PCLinuxOS 2009.1 KDE3
kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=PCLinuxOS_2009.1_KDE3 root=UUID=67712f42-4bae-49e8-8c93-4ea3415d4f9c acpi=on resume=UUID=f0016d67-3fac-49f1-b05f-1faf59720327 splash=verbose vga=788
initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd.img
title linux-nonfb
kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux-nonfb root=UUID=67712f42-4bae-49e8-8c93-4ea3415d4f9c acpi=on resume=UUID=f0016d67-3fac-49f1-b05f-1faf59720327 splash=verbose
initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd.img
title failsafe
kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=failsafe root=UUID=67712f42-4bae-49e8-8c93-4ea3415d4f9c failsafe acpi=on
initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd.img
title Windows7
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
title 2.6.24.7.tex1
kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26.8.tex3 BOOT_IMAGE=2.6.24.7.tex1 root=UUID=67712f42-4bae-49e8-8c93-4ea3415d4f9c acpi=on resume=UUID=f0016d67-3fac-49f1-b05f-1faf59720327 splash=silent vga=788
initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd-2.6.26.8.tex3.img
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=e7ccc224-df95-4eed-9bfc-35a147f81bf5 acpi=on resume=UUID=f0016d67-3fac-49f1-b05f-1faf59720327 splash=silent vga=788
initrd (hd0,6)/boot/initrd.img
savedefault
boot
title PCLinuxOS KDE4 (on /dev/sda8)
root (hd0,7)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=338bfe6e-6e12-4096-ad54-7575eb8d506a acpi=on resume=UUID=f0016d67-3fac-49f1-b05f-1faf59720327 splash=silent vga=788
initrd (hd0,7)/boot/initrd.img
savedefault
boot
title linux
kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=67712f42-4bae-49e8-8c93-4ea3415d4f9c acpi=on resume=UUID=f0016d67-3fac-49f1-b05f-1faf59720327 splash=verbose vga=788
initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd.img
#title 2.6.27.31.tex5
kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.31.tex5 BOOT_IMAGE=2.6.27.31.tex5 root=UUID=67712f42-4bae-49e8-8c93-4ea3415d4f9c acpi=on resume=UUID=f0016d67-3fac-49f1-b05f-1faf59720327 splash=verbose vga=788
initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd-2.6.27.31.tex5.img
