On Sun, 23 May 2004 21:09:38 -0700 Sean Kennedy <skennedy@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've got two harddrives. hda is my linux drive, hdb is my win2k drive. > > The default grub config didn't boot my win2k partition, which isn't really a > shock as it never has. But, neither did the grub config I had saved from my > fc1 install ( as follows ) > > root (hd1,0) > map (hd0, (hd1) > map (hd1), (hd0) > chainloader +1 > > My ability with grub is limited enough that I don't really understand what is > happening in the above ( the maps are obvious, but why root() and > chainloader? ), so I have no clue on how to fix this. I have read the info > pages on grub.conf, but from everythign I've read, this should work. > > Has anybody gotten grub to work with a similar config? > > Thanks Hey Sean, If you can set LBA mode on your disk in the BIOS that should fix it. Or boot into Fedora and run: sfdisk -d | sfdisk -f -H255 -N1 /dev/hda Where the number for the -N option should be the number for your windows NTFS/FAT partition. Check out these options too, second one shows how to use windows recovery console to fix windows: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=115980 http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=116653 Good Luck, Sean
