Beartooth wrote:
> I've just slogged through a very long thread, commencing 04/06/06, on
> a topic similar to what I need to ask. Most of the substantive part was
> over my head; but I *think* it was largely if not entirely about FC4-5,
> with occasional excursions back to FC2. So what I can't follow -- I'm a
> not quite clueless power user, and no technoid at all -- may just possibly
> be out of date. At any rate, let's take it again from the top. Pretty
> please.
>
> An electronic friend who not only speaks hardware but has probably
> forgotten more about computer and the Net is having an odd problem.
>
> He's in the midst of very kindly assembling a machine to fit my
> budget and his expertise; we worked our way through my needs and the
> options, one decision being individual hard drives for XP and for FC6. He
> seems to have it together, physically, already. He writes :
>
>> I need the recipe you used for the Linux, Windoze dual boot. I've tried
>> every recipe I have (spent most of the day yesterday on it) and so far
>> can't get it to work. I can get each OS to boot by switching the drive
>> boot priority from the BIOS but not by using the Windoze or Grub boot
>> loaders.
>
> The only secret I know, as I've told him, is that XP has to go on
> first. But surely he knows that better than I. I guessed it might be a
> matter of some wrinkle needed in grub.conf -- so I sent him copies of my
> present ones, on a machine with FC6 only, and on one that dual-boots
> successfully (with only one hard drive afaik).
>
> Still no joy. He writes :
>
>> I would appreciate it if you would query your lists. So far, my
>> configuration is:
>
> sda1: 512 meg fat32
> sda2: 75 gig ntfs
> sdb1: 76 gig ext3
>
>> Windoze is installed on the first drive with the boot loader on the
>> fat32 partition. FC-6 is on the second drive. Linux did recognize
>> Windoze during the install and configured Grub to the dual boot. I also
>> tried the reverse using a LINUX.BIN file (created with dd containing the
>> linux /boot partition) residing in the fat32 partition and loaded from
>> the Windoze boot.ini. Only way I can boot to either drive is by swapping
>> the drive priority in the bios. My best guess at this point is it has
>> something to do with the SATA drives. I haven't tried it with PATA
>> drives yet.
>
> -- and, in another reply :
>
>
>> On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Beartooth wrote:
> [...]
>> title Other
>> rootnoverify (hd0,0)
>> chainloader +1
>
I suspect that Windows is using partition 2 and not partition 1 as
drive C:. You can try changing the entry for Windows to:
title Other
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1
or
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1
Mikkel
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