grub windows problems
Hey, I'm trying to boot windows from my windows hard drive (secondary master, hdc) using grub and it ain't working. The error I get when I select windows while booting from grub is:
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Booting 'windows' The windows entry in my /boot/grub/menu.lst looks like this: Code:
title windows |
try changing "root (hd1,0)" to "rootnoverify (hd1,0)" that should prevent grub from trying to read the partition.
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here is my grub.conf file
I had the same problem when I upgraded to Windows XP This seems to work though # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda2 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda 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=/ hdc=ide-scsi initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img title Windows XP # as far as I can understand it the Windows XP hard disk hd1 # needs to think it is the first disk on the IDE bus in order to boot # so do a swap and add the following two commands to change it map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) # you then need to tell grub which hard disk and which partition to read the booting information from # although you have done a swap using the above commands the disks don't change their labelling # so use hd1,0 as the root device (in grub all numbering starts at zero) # the telltale to knowing which partition to add to the rootnoverify option # is the output of fdisk -l the `*' on /dev/hdb1 showing it's the active or boot partition rootnoverify (hd1,0) # now tell grub that you are going to be doing an indirect boot using an external chainloader # i.e it's going to grab the Windows boot code and run it instead # of directly loading the linux kernel like it usually does. chainloader +1 # not sure exactly what makeactive does # I'm assuming it is marking the root partition you specified # with the rootnoverify command as the active or boot partition # if it isn't already marked as the `*' or boot partition makeactive |
ok I tried just changing it to rootnoverify last night, but that didn't work. It just came up with:
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Booting 'windows' |
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