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John, you are correct and I fixed my
typo, however now it lists the boot parameters and then locks up. I tried changing it to (hd2,0) and it tells me it's an invalid drive so it looks like it's seeing the drive OK. Thanx ... Dave On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 2:16 PM, <prov...@gmail.com> wrote:Hello -I am trying to set up a Dell Optiplex that will dual boot to CentOS and Windows XP. I am using two different SATA drives, one for each OS. Initially, I had Windows as the first drive and tried to have the choice using "boot.ini". I have since switched the drives and am now trying to have the alternative of booting Windows using the Grub loader. When I select the Windows option blanks for a second and then comes back to the loader. The following is the contents of grub.conf: # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/sda default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title CentOS (2.6.18-194.17.1.el5) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.17.1.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb qu iet initrd /initrd-2.6.18-194.17.1.el5.img title CentOS (2.6.18-92.el5) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-92.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.18-92.el5.img title Windows XP rootnoverify (hd1,0) savedefault makeactive chainloaded +1 Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanx ... Dave _______________________________________________ |
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