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limewolf
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 Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2002 8:30 pm Post subject: Grub and Windows |
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I hope this is about the right the forum for this one, I have Gentoo working fine across all my machines, just my dual boot machine doesn't seem very happy booting windows after I've installed Gentoo...
Basically, I can boot Gentoo fine, but my Windows XP installation doesn't work. I don't use it much but need it for certain software I don't have for Linux.
My grub menu file is like this:
default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,4)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux
root (hd1,3) # my /boot partition
kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda1 # my root partition
title=Windows XP
root (hd1,0) # Windows XP FAT 32 drive
chainloader +1
My hardware set up is like this... 2 IBM drives, first one contains grub and one partition (root), second contains...
<FAT32 C></boot><Swap><FAT32 D>
So for grub windows is at (hd1,0), if I've got things right and so the above /should/ work... but it doesn't.
(I guess it's probably a bit of an odd setup, a product of a hardrive faliure and some lazyness on my part.)
Can anyone suggest somthing that might help me, am I missing somthing here, does it sound like it makes sense?
(If you want more info, please just ask.)
Thanks!
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arkane
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yeah, mapping is probably the best way to eliminate this issue.
Your booting from hd1 which is hdb. XP has issues with booting off anything but the primary disk. |
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limewolf
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| arkane wrote: | yeah, mapping is probably the best way to eliminate this issue.
Your booting from hd1 which is hdb. XP has issues with booting off anything but the primary disk. |
I did think of this one and tried adding...
map (hd1,1) (hd0,0)
...after the 'title' command, but it didn't help, basically grub just gives me a booting windows xp etc message but doesn't print or do anything showing it's even found the windows stuff. This is just the same as before.
I'm finding it a bit odd, like my C drive has been damaged, but mounting it under linux shows it's all there as far as I can tell.
Thanks... Chris.
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| limewolf wrote: | | arkane wrote: | yeah, mapping is probably the best way to eliminate this issue.
Your booting from hd1 which is hdb. XP has issues with booting off anything but the primary disk. |
I did think of this one and tried adding...
map (hd1,1) (hd0,0)
Thanks... Chris. |
map is used for switching drives virtually, not partitions!
Read about it here:
What you need to add at your XP entry is:
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map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
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So your /boot/grub/menu.lst has to be something like this (I didn't adjust the Gentoo entry):
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default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,4)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux
root (hd1,3)
kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda1
title=Windows XP
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
root (hd1,0)
chainloader +1
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