On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 17:30 +0000, Beartooth wrote: > I've just slogged through a very long thread, commencing 04/06/06, on > a topic similar to what I need to ask. Most of the substantive part was > over my head; but I *think* it was largely if not entirely about FC4-5, > with occasional excursions back to FC2. So what I can't follow -- I'm a > not quite clueless power user, and no technoid at all -- may just possibly > be out of date. At any rate, let's take it again from the top. Pretty > please. > > An electronic friend who not only speaks hardware but has probably > forgotten more about computer and the Net is having an odd problem. > > He's in the midst of very kindly assembling a machine to fit my > budget and his expertise; we worked our way through my needs and the > options, one decision being individual hard drives for XP and for FC6. He > seems to have it together, physically, already. He writes : > > > I need the recipe you used for the Linux, Windoze dual boot. I've tried > > every recipe I have (spent most of the day yesterday on it) and so far > > can't get it to work. I can get each OS to boot by switching the drive > > boot priority from the BIOS but not by using the Windoze or Grub boot > > loaders. > > The only secret I know, as I've told him, is that XP has to go on > first. But surely he knows that better than I. I guessed it might be a > matter of some wrinkle needed in grub.conf -- so I sent him copies of my > present ones, on a machine with FC6 only, and on one that dual-boots > successfully (with only one hard drive afaik). > > Still no joy. He writes : > > > I would appreciate it if you would query your lists. So far, my > > configuration is: > > sda1: 512 meg fat32 > sda2: 75 gig ntfs > sdb1: 76 gig ext3 > > > Windoze is installed on the first drive with the boot loader on the > > fat32 partition. FC-6 is on the second drive. Linux did recognize > > Windoze during the install and configured Grub to the dual boot. I also > > tried the reverse using a LINUX.BIN file (created with dd containing the > > linux /boot partition) residing in the fat32 partition and loaded from > > the Windoze boot.ini. Only way I can boot to either drive is by swapping > > the drive priority in the bios. My best guess at this point is it has > > something to do with the SATA drives. I haven't tried it with PATA > > drives yet. > > -- and, in another reply : > > > > On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Beartooth wrote: > [...] > > title Other > > rootnoverify (hd0,0) > > chainloader +1 > > > I'm running the same config in my grub.conf (menu.lst). > > > I noticed that your dual boot machine is not invoking a Volume > > Group: > > > root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 > > > but > > > root=LABEL=/ > > > Wonder if I need to manually configure the Linux partition? > > Can anyone help? > > > > -- > Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert > Fedora Core 6; CXO 5.0.1; Pine 4.64, Pan 0.119; Privoxy 3.0.3; > Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2.0.3, Epiphany 2.16, Opera 9.02, Firefox 1.5 > Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. > You can find here a good howto regarding GRUB: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=237511 Also I suggest reading http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+Win9x +Grub-HOWTO/proc.html#AEN72 (tldp GRUB Howto) as you can find there important informations regarding multidisk mapping (which seems to be missing from your setup). And as a 0.02$ thought: I don't think you would need a FAT32 512M partition for bootloader. HTH, Calin ================================================= Dime is money.
