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From: Christopher E <sensory.access@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub won't boot SATA WinXP disk
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 16:27:49
Message-Id: 184c54640604220922p3222cdd8o5d9669ff05554bb3@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub won't boot SATA WinXP disk by Allan Spagnol Comar
1 Hello there,
2
3 Try adding a map in there like this
4
5 map (hd1) (hd0)
6 map (hd0) (hd1)
7
8 now I am assuming that your windows is on /dev/sdb in linux or its it
9 your first drive if it is /dev/sdb the above code should work, put
10 this under the windows title :-)
11
12 the reason you are puting this twice is to swap both of the dirves
13
14 Hope that helps
15
16 Sincerely,
17 Christopher
18
19 On 4/22/06, Allan Spagnol Comar <allan.comar@×××××.com> wrote:
20 > Hi, I have had a similar problem, and it was about the disk and
21 > partition numering. When I configured grub, it seems to me that SATA
22 > disk was disk 0, but when botting it was disk 1, I saw you try some
23 > combination of numbers, but, you are sure about partition number ? it
24 > was in fack at first partition your windows system ? I will try
25 > something that way, I could help more if you print a fdisk -l here.
26 >
27 > holpe it helps, Allan
28 >
29 > On 4/22/06, mattr@×××××.com <mattr@×××××.com> wrote:
30 > > I just put in a SATA drive into an otherwise PATA machine. I put Windows XP
31 > > on the new drive. I added the following to my grub.conf:
32 > >
33 > > title=Windows XP
34 > > rootnoverify (hd2,0)
35 > > makeactive
36 > > chainloader +1
37 > >
38 > > but when I tell grub to boot this item, I get an otherwise blank screen with
39 > > the text:
40 > >
41 > > rootnoverify (hd2,0)
42 > > makeactive
43 > > chainloader +1
44 > >
45 > > and nothing else happens.
46 > >
47 > > I have never had difficulty getting grub to play with Windows in the past, but
48 > > that was always with PATA hardware.
49 > >
50 > > I have tried editing the grub configuration at boot time to see if grub
51 > > doesn't like my drive number or something. I used the TAB autocompletion
52 > > feature which lists three disks (hd0, hd1, and hd2). The former two are
53 > > definitely my raid array based on the number of partitions they contain. The
54 > > latter has only one partition (according to grub's TAB autocompletion) which
55 > > is as it should be given that it is obviously the Windows disk.
56 > >
57 > > I'm at a loss here. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm afraid I have
58 > > to use my BIOS to switch boot disks until I resolve this.
59 > > --
60 > > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
61 > >
62 > >
63 >
64 >
65 > --
66 > An application asked:
67 > "Requeires Windows 9x, NT4 or better",
68 > so I´ve installed Linux
69 >
70 > --
71 > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
72 >
73 >
74
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