Grub Hell....

Wolverine · 12-22-2001, 08:31 PM

No idea what I've done, but when I select Windows 98 from the Grub boot screen, I get "GRUB" printed on my screen and it goes on forever filling screen after screen.....

How can this be fixed?

Thanks.

Regards.

wolverine

linuxcool · 12-22-2001, 09:32 PM

When you select windows 98, don't press enter, press the ' e ' key. This will bring up grub in edit mode and your windows 98 grub entry will be listed. Check this entry to make sure it's ok.

Wolverine · 12-23-2001, 10:29 AM

Hmm it looks ok;

rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

Wolverine

linuxcool · 12-23-2001, 10:57 PM

Try adding ' makeactive '. This is what mine looks like:

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

Dayewalker · 12-23-2001, 11:03 PM

I had the same problem myself awhile back and no matter what I changed in the GRUB entry, it still did the same thing. Finally I ended up somehow screwing up the master boot record on my second hard drive and ended up having to wipe out both drives, reinstall Windows XP on the primary and then reinstall Redhat 7.2 on the slave and ended up using Lilo this time and the dual boot works great.

I know what you mean about having GRUB fill your entire screen. That word gave me nightmares for days...

WindozBytes · 12-25-2001, 07:41 PM

Dayewalker:

Windoze will not boot if it is not on the first drive; if Linux and windoze are on separate drives, and windoze is not on the first drive, you have to swap the identities of the two drives using grub's "map" command; the windoze entry in my grub.conf looks like this:

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

Linux is located on the first drive (hd0), and widoze on the second (hd1).

Wolverine · 12-27-2001, 01:31 PM

Ah well... I got sick of it all in the end, backed up, formatted and started again

Thanks guys

Wolverine