Loading Windows with GRUB

scouture · 03-09-2005, 04:40 PM

Before I get to my question, let me explain to you what my system looks like:
1. SATA Hard drive (boot partition with GRUB) on port-0/includes Fedora installation (several partions)
2. IDE Hard drive Primary Master/includes Windows installation on NTFS (1 primary partition)
The computer boots from the SATA and loads Grub from the boot partiton.
Here what my grub.conf looks like. It was generated with grubconf so I assume its done right.

Code:

title Fedora Core (2.6.10-1.770_FC3)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.770_FC3 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
        initrd /initrd-2.6.10-1.770_FC3.img
title Windows XP
        rootnoverify (hd1,0)
        makeactive
        chainloader +1

Fedora can run just fine but when I try to boot Windows, it just prints the following and does nothing else:

Code:

Booting Windows XP
        rootnoverify (hd0,0)
        makeactive
        chainloader +1

I know my Windows installation is not currupt because if I unplug the SATA hard drive, the BIOS jumps to the IDE hard drive it starts up just fine. How could I solve this. Could it be that rootnoverify (hd1,0) is just not pointing to the right hard drive or partition?

Thank you

madluther · 03-09-2005, 05:16 PM

try this:

Code:

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

The problem is that windows can't boot from any disk but the first one, the two map commands effectively swap the disks.

Mad.

scouture · 03-09-2005, 05:46 PM

Hi, I did what you told me but I get the following error:

Code:

Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format. 
Press any key to continue...

And it just takes me back to the menu.

madluther · 03-09-2005, 07:07 PM

Oops, change the rootnoverify command to

rootnoverify (hd1,0)

Its been awhile since I had a setup like you describe, so I'm working from memory.

HTH

Mad.