Selon cs <cs@networkingnewsletter.org.uk>: > On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 16:52 -0500, pham_cuong@emc.com wrote: > > There is a difference between changing the boot order from the BIOS vs. > > [physically] removing the master HD. Here's why: ...............Usefull stuff snipped............ > > Regards, > > > > Confucius > > useful stuff but I'm still unsure why if I change the order in BIOS then > (when I had it working a bit) it would start the XP boot sequence (and > not the GRUB from master) but then hang indefinitely... Hi ! Let me chime in here as I've faced the same problem you've got. My PC has a lot of disks, some of them for Fedora/LVM/mirror install, some of them for Mandriva/Ubuntu install and one with Windows XP. The problem I encountered came from ...guess what ? Windows XP installation. Here is a _short_ HowTo. 1) open you PC and let ONLY one disk into it as MASTER (if IDE) and install Windows/XP. 2) Double check that the Windows/XP boot section specify only this disk. 3) Test that you can boot Windows/XP in this particular configuration. 4) Return PC hardware as it should be. 5) double check that you Linux/LVM config boots fine. 6) modify the Grub.conf file to have Windows/XP believe it is on first disk/only disk using map() command. 7) double check Windows/XP boots fine. If you do a Windows/XP install with another configuration than above, you will have some references to this configuration in the registry/boot config...etc and won't be able to run XP¨again. Also be sure to wipe clean the Windows/XP disk before installation, otherwise, you know what.... This is just "been there, done that" .... kind of PITA I had. And, of course, YMMV. -- _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
