Grub

Hollywood W · 02-26-2003, 05:17 AM

I'm using grub as my boot loader. My primary disk,hda1, is Red Hat 8, and my slave,hdb1, is Windows XP(NTFS). I am sure it is hdb1 because I have mounted it on my desktop successfully.

so now I have gone into my grub.conf file and added the following:
title Windows
root (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

saved the changes and left the name as grub.conf.
next, I reboot....
well now I select Windows instead of Red Hat...
and I get this message that says it doesn't understand my filesystem.

I have already installed the new ntfs patch on my kernel.
What went wrong and how do I fix this problem?

annehoog · 02-26-2003, 05:23 AM

first I think the second line should be
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
I would check that.
Second I think you made it quite hard on yourself by putting windows on slave, it doesn't like that

This is an example of a working grub file:
title Windows 98
hide (hd0,0)
hide (hd0,1)
unhide (hd0,2)
rootnoverify (hd0,2)
chainloader +1
makeactive

Hope it works,
Anne

UnTamed · 02-26-2003, 08:23 AM

Code:

title Windows XP
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

Hollywood W · 02-27-2003, 01:32 AM

UnTamed:
Thanks soooo much, your advice worked. Now I get best of both worlds =). But I still prefer to use RedHat more because I'm still able to access my windows stuff from it. Once again, thanks.