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lostinlinux
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 Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2002 3:31 pm Post subject: Grub problem.... Dual booting Winxp and Gentoo |
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I am sure this has been answered somewhere in this forum, however I have spent a couple of nights looking and couldn't locate it. My problem is this. I have installed Gentoo onto a system that allready had Win XP on the primary master, and after installing Gentoo in installed Grub to the mbr, I edited the files according to the install guide but I can't load Win XP. Gentoo loads great however. These are the commands I used to install and set things up
root (hd1,1)//Place where linux boot partition is
setup (hd0)
quit
then my menu.lst file contains this
| Code: | default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd1,1)/boot/grub/spash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux
root(hd1,1)
kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hdc4
title= Windows xp
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
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Jetlag
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Joined: 30 Sep 2002
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| Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2002 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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Try something like this in your menu.lst
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root (hd0,0)
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
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lostinlinux
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| Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2002 4:13 pm Post subject: Unbelievable |
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| lol, ok...I must be retarded if one simple extra command like that could work so well. Windows booted up flawlessly, thanks much for the help. |
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turbobri
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Joined: 07 Oct 2002
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| Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2002 5:39 pm Post subject: |
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I'm having the same problem. I tried adding the rootnoverify and makeactive commands but no luck. When I select my WinXP option it just comes right back into the grub menu.
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turbobri
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| Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2002 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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Doh! I had misspelled "chainloader" as "chainloder" in my menu.lst file. Works fine now like this:
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title=Windows XP
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
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