On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 19:17 -0500, Cyber Source wrote: > Also, the mapping is necessary for dual drives, windows needs to think > that it is on the primary drive. > Maybe, and maybe not. I am not using XP at present, but my windows 98 install is very happy existing on /dev/hdb1 and booting from grub in the MBR on /dev/hda/. When I tried XP it worked the same way. I do not use the map lines in grub.conf, and when installing linux it does not write those lines either. I think the real issue is that windows will usually only boot from the first partition it sees as a dos/ntfs partition. I have no partitions other than linux/swap on hda so the first partition windows can see is /dev/hdb1 and it is happy there. > John Thorburn wrote: > > >I have a Dell system which has 2 HD's and a current > >install of Win 2K. I wiped out the 2nd HD and > >installed FC3 on it. I used the Auto Partition option > >for this drive and installed GRUB to handle the boot > >load stuff. However, the system doesn't give me the > >option at boot to use FC3 or Win 2K; it just goes to > >Win 2K. > > > >I tried placing GRUB on hda and then on hdb. Neither > >worked. I tried to reinstall the Boot Loader and, when > >I do, FC3 tries to install Firefox and then tells me > >that no images were loaded and that none of my boot > >loader changes will take effect. > > > >I've tried alot of stuff so far and I'm at my wit's > >end. Any help would be appreciated as I'm new to > >Linux/FC. > > > >Thanks much in advance. > >John T. > > You can boot to rescue mode from the first install CD. then do a "chroot /mnt/sysimage" to get the same environment you would have if booted from the hard disk. now you need to check the /boot/grub//grub.conf file and verify the stanza to boot XP is in there. If not it will need to be added finally check /boot/grub/device.map and verify /dev/hda is mapped to (hd0) and /dev/hdb is mapped to (hd1) after verifying everything is correct in the grub.conf file you last run "grub-install /dev/hda" Now a reboot should by default boot to linux and a menu selection should let you boot to XP Alternatively you can follow someone else's suggestion that you switch drive positions. Either way will work.
