On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 05:48, Jeff Vian wrote: > Edward Croft wrote: > > >On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 13:25, Michael A. Peters wrote: > > > > > >>Yes, but the issue is Windows was installed as C:\ > >>When making it the slave, it now becomes D:\ and everything in the > >>install that is hard coded as C:\ becomes screwed. > >> > >>That's why I need to use a boot loader that switches the drives. > >> > >> > > > >It can be done in grub. The key is to make Windows think the drive is > >the first drive. This is done with the commands. > > > > map (hd0) (hd1) > > map (hd1) (hd0) > > chainloader +1 > > > >I'm sorry I don't have my home file with me, otherwise, I could give you > >the exact example. > > > >For more info, use info grub > > > > > > > Edward > Exactly how did you get this to work? > I have windows on my slave drive but the commands you list above result > in an error from grub about "invalid or unsupported executable format" > > My exact grub format I am trying to use is > map (hd0) (hd1) > map (hd1) (hd0) > rootnoverify (hd0,0) > chainloader +1 > > I have also tried changing the rootnoverify (hd1,0) > tried changing the sequence of the last 2 lines, > > And in every case I get the same error message from grub. > > If I change bios to boot from the second drive it works perfectly, but > that is less than ideal to have to change the bios setting for dual booting. > > > > > > > Here is my working grub.conf for this setup (attached) -- Cheap Linux CD's - http://mpeters.us/linux/
# 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/hda7 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda default=0 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Fedora Core (2.6.4-1.300) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.4-1.300 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.4-1.300.img title Fedora Core (2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1.img title Windows XP map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) rootnoverify (hd1,0) makeactive chainloader +1 boot
