On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 07:11 +0100, 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
>
>
try adding 2 additional lines in there before the rootnoverify option
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
also verify that /etc/grub/device.map has the proper mapping for
both /dev/hda and /dev/hdb
"info grub" should give you a lot of detailed information.
> 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.
>
>
>
> [root@arrakis ~]#
> [root@arrakis ~]#
> [root@arrakis ~]# mount -t auto -r /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win2k/
> [root@arrakis ~]#
> [root@arrakis ~]# mount -t auto -r /dev/hdb4 /mnt/gentoo/
> [root@arrakis ~]#
> [root@arrakis ~]# ll /mnt/win2k/
> total 1368
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 150528 Jun 19 2003 arcldr.exe
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 163840 Jun 19 2003 arcsetup.exe
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jun 19 2005 autoexec.bat
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 285 Jun 19 2005 boot.ini
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jun 19 2005 config.sys
> drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 8192 Jun 19 2005 Documents and Settings
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 8192 Aug 24 2005 found.000
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jun 19 2005 io.sys
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jun 19 2005 msdos.sys
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 8192 Sep 2 2005 My Downloads
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 34724 Jul 9 2005 ntdetect.com
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 214432 Jul 9 2005 ntldr
> dr-xr-xr-x 25 root root 8192 Jun 19 2005 Program Files
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 8192 Jun 19 2005 Recycled
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 692224 Aug 26 2005 StubInstaller.exe
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 37376 Aug 7 2001 uninst.exe
> drwxr-xr-x 75 root root 16384 Jun 19 2005 winnt
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 118 Aug 15 17:43 wizard_debug.txt
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 8192 Jul 9 2005 WUTemp
> [root@arrakis ~]#
> [root@arrakis ~]# ll /mnt/gentoo/
> total 101368
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 29 21:23 bin
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 20 14:09 boot
> drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 24576 Mar 21 14:06 dev
> drwxr-xr-x 57 root root 4096 Aug 9 19:31 etc
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 21 16:35 home
> drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Mar 20 15:16 lib
> drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Mar 20 14:09 lost+found
> drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Mar 27 17:14 mnt
> drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Mar 28 02:20 opt
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 14 2006 proc
> drwx------ 19 root root 4096 Aug 10 03:22 root
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 20 19:59 sbin
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 103593867 Feb 25 20:24 stage3-x86-2006.0.tar.bz2
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 14 2006 sys
> drwxrwxrwt 32 root root 4096 Aug 9 20:25 tmp
> drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Mar 21 15:48 usr
> drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Mar 21 07:10 var
> [root@arrakis ~]#
> [root@arrakis ~]# cat /boot/grub/grub.conf -n
> 1 # grub.conf generated by anaconda
> 2 #
> 3 # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to
> this file
> 4 # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
> 5 # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
> 6 # root (hd0,0)
> 7 # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro
> root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
> 8 # initrd /initrd-version.img
> 9 #boot=/dev/hda
> 10 default=0
> 11 timeout=5
> 12 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> 13 hiddenmenu
> 14 title Fedora Core (2.6.17-1.2174_FC5)
> 15 root (hd0,0)
> 16 kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5 ro
> root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
> 17 initrd /initrd-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.img
> 18 title Fedora Core (2.6.15-1.2054_FC5)
> 19 root (hd0,0)
> 20 kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 ro
> root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
> 21 initrd /initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.img
> 22 title Other
> 23 rootnoverify (hd1,0)
> 24 chainloader +1
> [root@arrakis ~]#
> [root@arrakis ~]# date
> Thu Aug 24 07:01:45 IST 2006
> [root@arrakis ~]#
>
>
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> Thufir
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