From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 960 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2004 23:43:26 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 5 Dec 2004 23:43:26 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1Cb62I-0005Ou-Ak for arch-gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 05 Dec 2004 23:43:26 +0000 Received: (qmail 4146 invoked by uid 89); 5 Dec 2004 23:43:10 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-user-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 15575 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2004 23:43:10 +0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=jb5SOcb5t5rsifND5dh9Q8qiI+lcSMiwMlJoPKez8NDBUPbnWZG7C0XC+q4De/Qrl1gudFFAFM3sAxIKJwRF5nTIcQ+FXuh6tPl2yZ7w4y94TidEy+X4r8v/3uRfhk3gCFzXbchzCHfL5vOndjb3LG/42LPYUwio0jJrQw+1ymk= Message-ID: <5491fade041205154347b83c0b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 18:43:09 -0500 From: James Hiscock Reply-To: James Hiscock To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org, "askar ..." In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] about multiboot with grub X-Archives-Salt: 4530f132-2b2f-4c16-986f-dd9b53869b63 X-Archives-Hash: 68c3f710c6a25cf059ca53045802e089 > 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. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list