I've had many time where windows was NOT on the first partition (bios
partitions, etc) and it ALWAYS needed the mapping. If you have this
working without it, I would love to see it. Send a copy of your
grub.conf file.
Jeff Vian wrote:
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.
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