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manny15
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 Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 7:11 pm Post subject: Booting Gentoo, WinXP, and Win98 |
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I just installed a hard drive containing gentoo and win98 into a new Dell with winXP. The OSes seem to work just fine, but I' having trouble booting them. The hard drive I installed is set as primary on the second IDE port along with the DVD as a slave (cable length restrictions didn't allow me to put both hds on the same ide port.) I installed grub on the mbr of the disk with WinXP and gentoo works, but Win* won't boot. When I try to boot win98 i get a grub prompt, WinXP gets confused and brings up some Dell hardware detection program that won't let WinXP boot. So, I booted with a Win98 boot disk and did fdisk /mbr to restore the mbr. This get's me into WinXP, but I get no grub. Right now I'm booting gentoo with a floppy. Here's my grub menu.lst file.
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default 0
timeout 10
splashimage=(hd1,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hdc6
title=Windows XP
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
title=Windows 98
root (hd1,1)
chainloader +1
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I installed grub using...
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root (hd1,0)
setup (hd0)
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This should install it on the WinXP drive in the mbr. The only solution I can think of is booting off the floppy (yuck!), or using parted or something to resize the the WinXP partition and coping my old hd into the new one (if I really must). Anyone know of a better solution?
Note: My Gentoo hd also has grub in the mbr |
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dirtboy
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Location: Pascagoula, MS
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| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 8:57 pm Post subject: |
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| The first partition on your first harddrive (hd0,0) is probably a prorprietary Dell setup partition. Try changing the root (hd0,0) to root (hd0,1) . |
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Cloim
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| Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2003 1:13 am Post subject: |
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| You might also need to use "rootnoverify" instead of "root". |
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manny15
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| Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2003 1:23 am Post subject: |
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Great! that did the trick.  I haven't tried rootverify since root works just fine. for now at least. haha. |
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