Hello,
I have 2 hard drives in my box with linux and windows on hda and hdb
respectfully. My grub is on mbr of hda. And windows loader is on mbr of
hdb. I can boot with no problems into windows when I set hdb to be
master drive. However when I try to boot into windows from current
configuration the only message I get is
chainloader +1
which is the string from the grub.conf
Nothing more happens.
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda3
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.14-1.1637_FC4)
root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.14-1.1637_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/1 vga=792
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.14-1.1637_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/1
initrd /initrd-2.6.14-1.1637_FC4.img
title w2k
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1
# end of grub.conf
and here is the content of my boot.ini
[boot loader]
timeout=3
default=multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000
Professional" /fastdetect
I tried to change the partition number here from 0 to 1to tell the OS
that it is actually on the slave drive.
I suspect that for some reason windows does not like to have its
bootloader on a slave drive. This is just a pure guess (assuming that
everything I've done is ok). But if it is true, is there any workaround
or do I have to replace my grub with ntldr like the fellow couple
threads above?
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regards,
Oleksandr Korneta
/The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from./
