Dual Boot with Grub once again
 

Hi I have read through the forum in relation to Grub issues and still have not found a solution to my problem . So here it is

I have a machine with Win Nt Sever installed
and I added a second disk and installed Red Hat 9.0 in that DisK

Grub inserted the N.T. disk in boot options and the grub.conf looks like this

#boot=/dev/hdb
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/12
initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img

title DOS
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
unhide (hd1,0)
chainloader +1


Now when I do a fdisk -l it returns this information


Disk /dev/hdd: 13.6 GB, 13676544000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1662 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdd1 * 1 1661 13341951 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/hdb: 1280 MB, 1280950272 bytes
64 heads, 63 sectors/track, 620 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 = 2064384 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 38 76576+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb2 39 103 131040 82 Linux swap
/dev/hdb3 104 620 1042272 83 Linux


.My problem is this
I can boot Redhat no problem but cannot boot the Nt disk
I can mount the NTFS disk on the Redhat disk and look at the files
but booty no worky
I thought that maybe the (hd1,0) information is incorrect .
Anyone any Ideas ??

ok, so you have linux on primary slave, and the windows system on secondary slave - hdd (!??!?!) why isn't that on primary master?

your config file is set to have linux on primary master (hda), and nt on primary slave (hdb). nt is on (hd3,0) in grubspeak

OK

I don't have enough ribbons or pins , and cant leave desk so that was the way I connected them .



but when I put in (hd3,0) for the secondary slave disk (Nt server)
into the gurb.conf it says
"disk does not exist ."

But when It set it back to (hd1,0) it tres to boot but just hangs .
Does Grub have problems booting NT server??

You need to have windows on the master and linux on the slave with grub on the MBR. There are numerous posts in these forums on this you just need to do some reading. This is not a grub problem though if you were using lilo NT still wouldn't boot.