On Thursday 24 August 2006 08:11, Thufir wrote: > The slave hard drive on my box is dual boot windows/linux. The master > also has linux. This makes for three OS's. Only the master hard drive is > booting at the moment, which I'd like to fix. All data has been backed > up. > > When I attempt to boot windows I get an excerpt from /boot/grub/grub.conf > as follows: > > title Other > rootnoverify (hd1,0) > chainloader +1 > > > Other meaning windows (which I should change). Prior to installing linux > to the master, windows on the slave booted fine. However, linux on the > slave didn't boot. To expedite things I just went ahead and installed > linux on the master, as that seemed easiest at the time. > > I know that grub can be edited, but I don't how it should be changed. > > Perhaps this is related to the MBR on hdb? I don't mind re-installing > windows to hdb, I wanted to repartition anyhow. Hi. I think the first think I'd change, would be to make the drive with Windoze, and Gentoo on it, the master drive, and make the drive with FC5 on it the slave. I havn't used LVM, as I normally manually customise my partitions, not using LVM, but presume if you want to leave the install as is, moving Grub around is no different to a none LVM setup. So, using the 1st CD, or DVD, choose the linux rescue option, you will be given a list of partitions to boot from, choose the one for FC5, and you should end up with a command prompt. Type. chroot /mnt/sysimage Now to install Grub in the MBR of hda (the windoze drive, type. grub-install /dev/hda Exit the chrooted environment, remove the disc, and reboot. You should now be able to boot both FC5, and Win 2k, but not Gentoo yet. While you've got FC5 booted up, you can edit Grub. Su to root, and using a text editor go to /boot/grub/grub.conf . There are some things you can do here to make life a bit easier. Comment out the hiddenmenu line putting a # in front of it. Change the timeout to something more sensible like 30. Change the title for "other" to Win2k, and if there are endings to the kernel lines "rhgb quiet" , remove the rhgb quiet bits, which will, when you boot up give you the boot up text on screen. You will also need to change the "root/boot" entries for the kernel/s to reflect the fact that the FC5 drive is now the slave "hdb". So if they were (hd0,0), they will now be (hd1,0). If you know the partition that Gentoo boots from, remembering that it's now on hda the new master drive, you can add a chainloader entry for that, using the same layout that's there for Win2k. title Gentoo root (hd0,3) chainloader +1 Grubs drive/partition naming is different to the norm. hda is (hd0), hda1 is (hd0,0) , hdb is (hd1) , hdb1 is (hd1,0) , and so on. So my example above using (hd0,3) is in reality hda4, and it that is the partition that your Gentoo boots from, thats what it should look like. Save the changes to Grub, exit the text editor, and the CLI. You now need to make sure that Grub, or Lilo (whichever you are using on Gentoo) is installed to the partition you boot Gentoo from. I won't go into moving the bootloader in Gentoo at the moment. I havn't moved Gentoos bootloader around for a while, but pretty much follows the same as you did for FC5, but instead of putting Gentoos bootloader in the MBR, you are putting it in the Gentoo partition you boot from. All the best. Nigel.
