Installing grub onto sata drive to redirect to ide in Suse 9.3

d3viant · 05-25-2005, 04:20 PM

Hi

I am trying to get suse 9.3 working on an upgraded pc. I have 2 sata hard drives setup in a raid 0 configuration with windows xp installed on them. I have another 80gb ide hard drive to put suse linux on. I can install suse linux on the ide drive, and grub on the sata drive with no problems, but grub doesnt ever boot up windows again. I think this is because suse sees the raid drive as 1 drive on /dev/sda whereas /dev/sdb is empty. Is there any way to solve this, iIm even happy with a 3rd party boot program. I just want to be able to boot both OSes without having to change the boot order in bios each time

Thanks

d3viant · 05-26-2005, 03:55 PM

Ok, I _think_ its possible to do this in grub -ill just need some help with it - im no grub expert!

I have grub on the mbr of my ide drive, which the bios is set to boot from 1st. The grub menu comes up ok, and i can boot linux without any problems. But if I try to boot windows, it displays chainloader +1 and stops there. I have since added "makeactive" to the menu.lst file for the windows entry, but this makes no difference. The only thing I can think of is that its not pointing the the mbr of my raid drive correctly (which it doesnt even pick up properly) Is there any way i can find out where to point grub to for it to pick up my raid drives mbr? (its currently pointing to "hd(1, 0)")

Zero-0-Effect · 06-21-2005, 09:14 AM

There is no hd(1,0) ..
That should be

title Windows
root (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

Assuming windows is on the first partition of the second drive in your system.

Reread your post and you said you had grub on the mbr of the sata drive as well ??

You should have, on the IDE drive, grub installed to the MBR.
On the SATA drive, the first one which holds winxp, you should have the windows boot manager and all in the MBR, not grub. If you do have grub installed a second time you can reinstall the windows boot manager by booting up the windows CD and entering the recovery console. Run FIXBOOT and FIXMBR. That will reinstal the windows boot manager on the sata drive for you. Also open up fdisk for that sata drive and double check the boot flag is set on the first partition where windows is.