Just nailed my BIOS & Vista partition

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 12/17/06, Hadders <fedora at workingwithit.com> wrote:
> Wow! That was an interesting result from Grub, I'd never have expected
> that, though I can't blame Grub as it was most likely my fault.
>
> I was trying to get it so I can boot my second hard drive, hd1 and get
> its XP to load from Grub.
> Choices would be Linux, Vista or XP.
> I was in the command-line and typed
> rootnoverify (hd1,0)
> hide (hd0,0)
> makeactive
> chainloader +1
> boot
>
> Made sense to me, I figured it would be all good. But!! It wasn't.
> Instead Vista started to load (that's hd0,0), so I'm confused as to why
> XP (hd1,0) didn't.
> Oh well I thought, anyway, half way through the load Vista command
> console comes up and says "autocheck program not found".... umm, okay I
> thought, then I hear *click* *tink* and the hard drives are turning off,
> WTF! Next thing I know the machines posting with a WIDE RANG BIOS
> ERROR.... WTF!
>
> So I recovered to previous (thank you gigabyte for dual bios)...
>
> Okay, so Grub clearly upset Vista by "switching"/"hiding" things. But..
> 1... why didn't that work to boot XP
> 2... surely it was Vista that got upset and did bad bios things right...
> there's no way Grub could have done that?!
>
> H
>

Well if you were in Vista when errors started pooping up, I would say
it's Vistas' fault. That would also put you offtopic for the list
however.

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