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

["Andreas Claesson" <andreas.claesson@gmail.com>]

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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