Re: grub.conf help (w/ XP)

Michael A. Peters wrote:

On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 05:48, Jeff Vian wrote:

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)

------------------------------------------------------------------------

# 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

My file below looks exactly like yours for the windows section.
Yet whenever I try to boot to that OS I get the message above.

This is really frustrating and makes no sense.
Does anyone have any other suggestions??

# 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 Fedora Core (2.6.1-1.65)
       root (hd0,0)
       kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.1-1.65 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb
       initrd /initrd-2.6.1-1.65.img
title Windows
       map  (hd0)  (hd1)
       map  (hd1)  (hd0)
       rootnoverify  (hd1,0)
       makeactive
       chainloader +1
       boot