From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FnAl4-0006QS-CB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Jun 2006 08:48:22 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k558kuE6013929; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 08:46:56 GMT Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.176]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k558fKZM028948 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 08:41:21 GMT Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id b29so261651pya for ; Mon, 05 Jun 2006 01:41:19 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Uqy3RuQ0DSCDH81RW5Dd4Y0wjPf2BUlgLd+9IIGZOoZRG4cyyatnwwCGxrsdwvv6yAdFT+e7T2WugoY9+TczUGZJ5TdUTozgQzH8f0E4xfaxBPAMkrBENhJqK+yuQelb0gCRcQqVVGfzDV+H77zFiLuV+uEsoJgeyYuYvpgygNQ= Received: by 10.35.70.17 with SMTP id x17mr6094901pyk; Mon, 05 Jun 2006 01:41:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.46.7 with HTTP; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 01:41:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <72bdee2f0606050141u588144dfu4de8e3b786530fb7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 10:41:19 +0200 From: "Andreas Claesson" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Issues with Gentoo & WinXP dualboot setup In-Reply-To: <4483BA96.6060004@poi.dvo.ru> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4483BA96.6060004@poi.dvo.ru> X-Archives-Salt: cabc674f-7148-4631-a6cd-ecd3e45f2984 X-Archives-Hash: 31453a1207a1f2586a1f292051501387 On 6/5/06, 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. > 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list