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From: James Hiscock <boxroot@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org, "askar ..." <tenzan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] about multiboot with grub
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 18:43:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5491fade041205154347b83c0b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ff32565b04120506047c6d8f26@mail.gmail.com>

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

Get rid of the "makeactive" line -- it's unneccessary, and may cause
you no end of headaches... What that line does is change the "active"
(bootable) partition - in this case, to your WindowsXP partition which
probably isn't what you want...

> title=Windows 2000
> root (hd1,0)
> rootnoverify (hd1,0)
> chainloader +1

Get rid of the "root (hd1,0)" line -- it's unneccessary (and may be
what's causing your problem)...

You can try using the "map" command to swap the drives around (as far
as the BIOS/Windows is concerned):

title=Windows 2000
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1

...would make your BIOS/Win2K to think that /dev/hdb is /dev/hda, and
vice versa. Most versions of Windows that I've messed around with
require being installed to a primary partition on the first hard disk.
This solution works around that limitation.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-12-05 23:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-05 14:04 [gentoo-user] about multiboot with grub askar ...
2004-12-05 16:18 ` mac
2004-12-05 23:43 ` James Hiscock [this message]
2004-12-06  0:30   ` Bastian Balthazar Bux

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