On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 18:25, Taylor, ForrestX wrote: > On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 16:02, kate wrote: > > un-dual boot XP & FC2 > > How do I correct the boot procedure? > > > > Neither will boot separately. How do I fix this? > > > > BACKGROUND > > I have 2 hardrives. hda is XP, and hdb is FC2, managed > > by Grub. I want to separate them. I bought drive > > trays, so when I want FC2, I put in FC2 tray. When I > > want XP, I put in XP tray. RESULT: not dual boot > > system. > > Put in the XP tray, and run the Windows rescue console from the CD. > Choose the option to restore the MBR, and you should be able to boot > from it. > > Put in the FC2 tray. Boot from CD1 (or the DVD) and run `linux > rescue`. When it asks, mount your system and `chroot /mnt/sysimage`. > Change all of the entries in /etc/fstab that reference /dev/hdb to > /dev/hda. Run `grub-install /dev/hda`. If you get no errors, reboot > and voila ;o) > > Forrest > He also will need to modify /boot/grub/device.map and /boot/grub/grub.conf to point to the correct devices before he runs the grub-install. >From the description given device.map probably has mapping for hd0 and hd1. The mapping for hd0 will need to point to the fc2 drive (/dev/hda) and remove the mapping for hd1. Then in grub.conf change everything that points to hd1 to point to hd0 instead.
