Re: Grub and XP

Jeff Vian wrote:

On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 19:24, Wesley (Buck) Lemke wrote:

I had linux installed. I installed XP. Then I re-installed Grub to the MBR ->

grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> setup (hd0)

I now have XP installed on the master drive of the first ide controller, and FC2 on the slave. How should my grub.conf look? This is what I have now:

default=0
timeout=10
#splashimage=(hd1,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz <---------- (this doesn't seem to work, so it's commented out).
title Fedora Core (2.6.6-1.435.2.3)
# root (hd0,0) <------------- Is this needed?
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.6-1.435.2.3 ro root=/dev/hdb1 rhgb quiet acpi=off
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.6-1.435.2.3.img
title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
makeactive

The root line is required for all boots.  It tells grub which partition
to load the kernel from.

If XP is in fact on the first partition on the first disk then FC2 would
not boot for you with that stanza.  You may actually have XP on the
slave drive if FC2 boots with this in grub.conf.

FC2 boots fine, but XP gives me:

Error 13:

Invalid or Unsupported executable format.

Is my setup for FC2 correct (it works, but is it ideal), and how do I boot XP?

Mine works like this, and it was installed when I installed FC2 with XP
already loaded on hd0,0

for me hd2 is my scsi drive and I have the bios set to boot from scsi.

-----

default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Fedora Core (2.6.6-1.435.2.3)
       root (hd2,0)
       kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.6-1.435.2.3 ro root=/dev/sda3 rhgb quiet
acpi=no
       initrd /initrd-2.6.6-1.435.2.3.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358)
       root (hd2,0)
       kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=/dev/sda3 rhgb quiet
       initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img
title Win
       rootnoverify (hd0,0)
       chainloader +1

Well, I'm replying to this in XP. I got it to work with hd1 for XP and hd0 for linux. I also had to put the map (hd0) (hd1) and map (hd1) (hd0) for XP to boot.

The wierd thing is that if I'm in Linux, and do a 'df' it shows root mounted on /dev/hdb1. So the way I understand it, that means that I couldn't boot to linux if I have root (hd0, 0)....but that is the only way it works.

Basically I have no idea why it is working, but it is working now...