Hello all!

After installing FC1 .. problems persisted on the dual boot as I had two drives (1 sata.. 1 raid)... I solved those problems but now I have one more:

I have FC1 and WinXP on the same machine.. on the grub.conf this is what it looks like for WinXP:

title WinXP
hide (hd0,0)
unhide (hd1,0)
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
boot

My problem is... whenever I boot to Windows ... when I restart my computer it will automatically go to the GRUB command line(instead of the "Choose your OS here!" graphical mode). I can start windows fine if I put those lines above.... but that just sucks if I have to do that to boot to linux/windows.

SATA hd has WINXP and as secondary slave drive
IDE has FC1 which is slave master drive

How does this happen, and how do you solve it? I currently removed the IDE ribbon off the computer so I can boot back to windows... but how do I overcome the problem to dual boot easily?

I forgot to add.... GRUB is installed in IDE and not in SATA

If grub is booting to command-line, it happens in /etc/inittab. Look for the lines which read:

# the default runlevel is defined here.
id:3:initdefault:

The default runlevel is 3 (command-line or text-mode). Edit that line to read id:5:initdefault: to make the default GUI instead of text-mode.

If that isn't the situation with your config, I'd suggest that, when Linux boots to command-line, just enter the command 'init 5' (without quotes) to complete the boot process into GUI mode, until you get it figured out.

PS Apologies all around. Are those lines in the /boot/grub/grub.conf? If not, put them there so that you don't have to enter them manually.
And, since you've shown us what the grub.conf looks like for windows, what do you have in grub.conf for FC?

Unforunately, I cannot boot with 'init 5' because this is the GRUB command prompt. The above lines are in grub.conf .. sorry but I'm not 100% positive sure on the other lines for grub.conf as I didn't get a chance to write them down. Nevertheless, this is stock FC1 install so it may look normal.

I remember now what I did... I reinstalled FC1 because of this error... and it still does it for some reason! Now.. I can only reinstall/reformat/etc to boot to linux again.

Thanks,... but are there any other suggestions? I'm very patient just need the right answer

bump

Umm... no.

He's getting a grub prompt, not a bash (or other shell) prompt. Is that hide/unhide/map stuff necessary in order for sata and raid to work? I suspect that is the source of the trouble. Not sure how to fix as I don't have much experience with sata or raid. I think that /boot/grub is unavailable on windows reboot because of the hide/map stuff.

The windows lines in grub.conf roughly state that to boot to the SATA drive normally as if grub.conf didn't even existed.

Unfortunately, I do not know the source of the problem ... but you may be right. I'll check in a few if it is the problem. But that means ANOTHER reformatting of the IDE.

Anyone have any other tips?

is their a menu.lst in /boot/grub. /etc/grub.conf should be a symlink to menu.lst