On Tuesday 26 December 2006 18:26, Bruce Burden wrote: > Hi Fei, > > On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 05:35:59PM +0800, fei huang wrote: > > didn't you separate your boot partition from / ? > > > > --> root (hd1,5) > > this indicates your BOOT partition (/boot) is located at /dev/hdb6 > > Originally, this would have been: > > root(hd0,5) > > > --> kernel /boot/linux-2.6.15-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/hda6 > > this indicates your ROOT partition ( your / ) locates at /dev/hda6, is is > > possible? > > while I have not changed this line. > > /boot is part of the / heirarchy, which is on /dev/hda6 assuming > the disk is an IDE disk in the laptop. > > What I have is: > > IDE: FreeBSD, with FreeBSD MBR > USB enclosure: > first 2 partitions Windows > hda5 - SWAP > hda6 - / > hda7 - /var > hda8 - /usr > hda9 - /tmp > hda10 - /usr/src > hda11 - /usr/portage > hda12 - /home > GRUB is instaled in MBR. > > Now, on boot, the FreeBSD bootloader gets me to the GRUB loader on > the USB drive. > > What I believe I need to know is how to remap the partitions on the > original IDE drive to SCSI partitions, because that drive is now in the > USB enclosure.
You can use tab auto-completion in grub to see what drives and partitions are identified as. > Also, I need to know how to "change" the Windows partition so that > Windows believe it is the first disk, otherwise it will not boot. That's right, it won't. You need the map command in your grub.conf: map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) WinXP will now think that it is on the first disk and it will boot happily. -- Regards, Mick
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