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Seth
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 Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2002 5:30 pm Post subject: Booting win2k with grub. |
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Sorry if this is not the correct forum for my question, but as there seem to be a lot of grub questions here I thought I'd try.
I've just replaced a Red Hat/Win2k dual boot system with Gentoo and, miracle of miracles, I somehow avoided trashing the windows partition. But now grub can't boot it. The entry in my grub.conf is:
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title=Windows 2000
rootnoverify(hd0,1)
chainloader +1
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which is just what it was before. The windows partition is /dev/hda2.
So my question is: What do I need to do to make my machine a gentoo/win2k dual boot system?
Thanks,
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matthew
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| Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2002 6:07 pm Post subject: Grub and Win2000 |
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Grub is very picky as to the location of whitespace, try changing
rootnoverify(hd0,1)
to
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
note the space between rootnoverify and (hd0,1)
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Matthew |
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s003apr
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| Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2002 6:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | rootnoverify(hd0,1) |
shouldn't there be a space between "rootnoverify" and "(hd0,1)"
eg
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
instead of:
rootnoverify(hd0,1)
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s003apr
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| Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2002 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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| matthew, LOL, you beat me too it |
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Seth
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| Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2002 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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| s003apr wrote: | | Quote: | | rootnoverify(hd0,1) |
shouldn't there be a space between "rootnoverify" and "(hd0,1)"
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Oh my gosh, a typo! It would be cool if it's that simple. I'll check tonight after work.
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Seth |
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Seth
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| Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2002 2:15 pm Post subject: Thanks to all |
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who pointed out that I had a typo in my grub.conf. When I fixed that, W2k booted just as it used to.
Again,
Thanks.
Seth |
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