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

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

[Dmitry Mashkovskiy]

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

[Andreas Claesson]

On 6/5/06, Dmitry Mashkovskiy <smash-lists@poi.dvo.ru> 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.
>

I believe the problem is that Windows expect to be installed on the first disk
and when it is not it fail to start.

Try adding this before the rootnoverify line:

map hd0 hd1
map hd1 hd0

This will make the bios change the order of the disks and Windows will
hopefully be happy again.

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

[Maxim]

> 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.

BOIS changing the numbers of disk during loading.
Try to modify /boot/grub/device.map

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Мах Jazz

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

[Shaochun Wang]

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

[Dmitry Mashkovskiy]

Hi again! I'm late a little :)
>
> I believe the problem is that Windows expect to be installed on the 
> first disk
> and when it is not it fail to start.
>
> Try adding this before the rootnoverify line:
>
> map hd0 hd1
> map hd1 hd0
>
> This will make the bios change the order of the disks and Windows will
> hopefully be happy again.
>
> /Andreas

Thanks a lot, Andreas, it works.
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