My Linux partitions are lost.

[John T Nelson]

Hey Tom,

I was afraid you'd say that. You see, my setup has Windows XP on the
second disk much like this, but when I try booting from hd1 I get dropped
into GRUB...

# Windows XP
title Windows XP
        rootnoverify    (hd1,0)
        chainloader +1
[root at uracil grub]#

I've also tried swapping the drives as follows and it still doesn't work....

# Windows XP
title Windows XP
        map (hd0) (hd1)
        map (hd1) (hd0)
        rootnoverify    (hd0,0)
        chainloader +1
[root at uracil grub]#

Both styles failed (dropped me into GRUB). Any ideas?

-- John



On Fri, 14 May 2004, Tommy Reynolds wrote:

> Uttered John T Nelson <developer at computation.com>, spake thus:
> 
> > What if his Windows partition was on hdb (the second disk)?
> > What would the boot entry in grub look like then?
> > > You should be able to boot Linux.  If your GRUB doesn't already point
> > > to the Winders partitions, just add a clause like the following to
> > > your "/etc/grub.conf" file:
> > > 
> > > 	title Windoze
> > > 	rootnoverify (hd0,0)
>                       hd1
> 		        ^------ Bob's your uncle.
> > > 	chainloader +1