On Sun, 2005-03-04 at 11:58 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 06:37 -0400, David Niemi wrote: > > How do the drive assignments work in Grub? > > > > I have 4 hard drives in a computer: > > hda - ntfs data disk > > hdb - ntfs data disk > > sda - FC3, Grub, used LVM default installation with SELinux > > sdb - ntfs, WinXP > > > > During the install initially grub was going to be installed to hda which > > I didn't want so I unplugged the 2 drives and installed with the 2 SATA > > active. Because of this sda is hd0 in Grub and sdb is hd1. Once I > > plugged the other 2 drives back in Grub wouldn't boot to WinXP. > > > > At the moment I change the boot priority to sdb in the bios to boot to > > WinXP. This is the pertinent sections of my grub.conf: > > ********************************* > > title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667) > > root (hd0,0) > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 > > rhgb quiet > > initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img > > title Other > > rootnoverify (hd1,0) > > chainloader +1 > > ********************************* > > I tried some Google searches, man grub, and fought with info grub to no > > avail. > > > > How do I change the drive assignments to get Grub to point to the right > > drive to boot WinXP also? > > Grub uses the same drive ordering as your BIOS. > > So you probably want to change hd0 references to hd2 and hd1 references > to hd3. > > Paul. The order is sda, sdb, hda, hdb. With sda booting with Grub, when I select "Other" to boot XP as is above, I get the following displayed on screen: Booting 'Other' Rootnoverify (hd1,0) chainloader +1 Then the blinking cursor 2 lines down, so I thought that the drive reference was wrong. Any way to check? XP is installed on the first partition of sdb in a 50Gb partition.
