Grub Configuration

RJDavison · 05-21-2004, 10:58 AM

Using Fed Core 2 on a box with 2 hard drives - 1 windows XP and the other linux.

I thought that during installation I set Grub up to read the windows partition on the second HD, but when I try and use this the boot up hangs all the time.

How do I remove this configuration from Grub and try and reconfigure to read the windows partition on the second drive ?

nukkel · 05-21-2004, 11:16 AM

Do you have a /boot/grub/menu.lst file? If you do could you post it here?

RJDavison · 05-21-2004, 11:37 AM

menu.lst contents.......

default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358smp)
. root (hd0,0)
. Kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358smp ro roo-LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
. initrd /initrd (2.6.5-1.358)
title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358)
. root (hd0,0)
. Kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro roo-LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
. initrd /initrd (2.6.5-1.358.img)
title Windows
. rootnoverify (hd1,0)
. chainloader +1

its at this point that the system hangs and doesnt go any further. Is it my stupidity ?

nukkel · 05-21-2004, 01:01 PM

try
title Windows
. rootnoverify (hd1,0)
. makeactive
. chainloader +1

Don't worry this has nothing to do with stupidity

RJDavison · 05-21-2004, 01:44 PM

Its just dawned on me that my other drive is SATA therefore I'm guessing that the reference should not not be hda1, but rather sda1.

See, it was my stupidity !