GRUB Question

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Wed Oct 17 14:28:14 UTC 2007


John Pierce wrote:
>> I read the thing for chainload and it seems you need:
>> rootnoverify (hd1,0)
>> makeactive
>> boot
> 
> Tried that one, got Error 8: Kernel must be loaded before booting.
> 
>> It's trivial: I don't have one set up at present, but it's like this
>> stanza booting Windows:
>> title Windows XP Professional
>>      rootnoverify (hd0,0)
>>      chainloader (hd0,0)+1
> 
> Tried this one, got Error 15: Invalid or unsupported executable format.
> 
> I am going to re-read the info grub again and see if I can make heads
> or tails of it.
> 
I believe the problem is that Grub is looking for the boot loader at
the start of the first partition, and not the MBR, of the second disk.

Mikkel
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