Re: [gentoo-user] Issues with Gentoo & WinXP dualboot setup

[Shaochun Wang <scwang@ios.ac.cn>]

On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 04:01:10PM +1100, Dmitry Mashkovskiy wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've successfully set up Gentoo on the machine with ABIT IS7 motherboard 
> and two SATA disks (integrated controller on ICH5 chipset, I guess). The 
> first one is Seagate (Ch2 M. (master?) in BIOS) with WinXP, the second 
> is Maxtor (Ch3 M. in BIOS) with Gentoo and GRUB in MBR. One problem is 
> that I cannot boot in Windows while booting with GRUB. Here is my grub.conf:
> -------------
> default 0
> timeout 10
> 
> title=Windows XP
> rootnoverify (hd1,0)
> makeactive
> chainloader +1
> 
> title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.12-r6
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/sdb3 irqpoll
> -------------
> I get only
> 
> Booting 'Windows XP'
> rootnoverify (hd1,0)
> makeactive
> chainloader +1
> 
> and then machine hangs. So I have to set Seagate drive as a boot device 
> in BIOS in order to boot Windows. How can I work it out? Should I 
> install GRUB in the MBR of Windows disk?
> Another problem is that sometimes machine freezes or falls in kernel 
> panic while booting Gentoo (usually on probing ATA devices). I suppose 
> it may be due to buggy/broken hardware but it would be nice to find some 
> solution or workaround.
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> D.
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> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

I hope the following works for you:

default 0
timeout 10

title=Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.12-r6
root (hd1,0)
kernel /kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/sdb3 irqpoll

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Shaochun Wang(王绍春) <scwang@ios.ac.cn>

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