[gentoo-user] Grub won't boot SATA WinXP disk
I just put in a SATA drive into an otherwise PATA machine. I put Windows XP on the new drive. I added the following to my grub.conf: title=Windows XP rootnoverify (hd2,0) makeactive chainloader +1 but when I tell grub to boot this item, I get an otherwise blank screen with the text: rootnoverify (hd2,0) makeactive chainloader +1 and nothing else happens. I have never had difficulty getting grub to play with Windows in the past, but that was always with PATA hardware. I have tried editing the grub configuration at boot time to see if grub doesn't like my drive number or something. I used the TAB autocompletion feature which lists three disks (hd0, hd1, and hd2). The former two are definitely my raid array based on the number of partitions they contain. The latter has only one partition (according to grub's TAB autocompletion) which is as it should be given that it is obviously the Windows disk. I'm at a loss here. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm afraid I have to use my BIOS to switch boot disks until I resolve this. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Grub won't boot SATA WinXP disk
Hi, I have had a similar problem, and it was about the disk and partition numering. When I configured grub, it seems to me that SATA disk was disk 0, but when botting it was disk 1, I saw you try some combination of numbers, but, you are sure about partition number ? it was in fack at first partition your windows system ? I will try something that way, I could help more if you print a fdisk -l here. holpe it helps, Allan On 4/22/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just put in a SATA drive into an otherwise PATA machine. I put Windows XP on the new drive. I added the following to my grub.conf: title=Windows XP rootnoverify (hd2,0) makeactive chainloader +1 but when I tell grub to boot this item, I get an otherwise blank screen with the text: rootnoverify (hd2,0) makeactive chainloader +1 and nothing else happens. I have never had difficulty getting grub to play with Windows in the past, but that was always with PATA hardware. I have tried editing the grub configuration at boot time to see if grub doesn't like my drive number or something. I used the TAB autocompletion feature which lists three disks (hd0, hd1, and hd2). The former two are definitely my raid array based on the number of partitions they contain. The latter has only one partition (according to grub's TAB autocompletion) which is as it should be given that it is obviously the Windows disk. I'm at a loss here. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm afraid I have to use my BIOS to switch boot disks until I resolve this. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- An application asked: Requeires Windows 9x, NT4 or better, so I´ve installed Linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Grub won't boot SATA WinXP disk
Hello there, Try adding a map in there like this map (hd1) (hd0) map (hd0) (hd1) now I am assuming that your windows is on /dev/sdb in linux or its it your first drive if it is /dev/sdb the above code should work, put this under the windows title :-) the reason you are puting this twice is to swap both of the dirves Hope that helps Sincerely, Christopher On 4/22/06, Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have had a similar problem, and it was about the disk and partition numering. When I configured grub, it seems to me that SATA disk was disk 0, but when botting it was disk 1, I saw you try some combination of numbers, but, you are sure about partition number ? it was in fack at first partition your windows system ? I will try something that way, I could help more if you print a fdisk -l here. holpe it helps, Allan On 4/22/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just put in a SATA drive into an otherwise PATA machine. I put Windows XP on the new drive. I added the following to my grub.conf: title=Windows XP rootnoverify (hd2,0) makeactive chainloader +1 but when I tell grub to boot this item, I get an otherwise blank screen with the text: rootnoverify (hd2,0) makeactive chainloader +1 and nothing else happens. I have never had difficulty getting grub to play with Windows in the past, but that was always with PATA hardware. I have tried editing the grub configuration at boot time to see if grub doesn't like my drive number or something. I used the TAB autocompletion feature which lists three disks (hd0, hd1, and hd2). The former two are definitely my raid array based on the number of partitions they contain. The latter has only one partition (according to grub's TAB autocompletion) which is as it should be given that it is obviously the Windows disk. I'm at a loss here. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm afraid I have to use my BIOS to switch boot disks until I resolve this. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- An application asked: Requeires Windows 9x, NT4 or better, so I´ve installed Linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Grub won't boot SATA WinXP disk
I've done this on SATA and IDE drives and combos of the same and I never got XP to boot unless I used rootnoverify (hd0,0). Macro$haft insists on being first in my experience. FWIW. Make a grub boot disk(if you haven't already) and practice until you find the proper sequence of commands; then you can put them into a conf file and do a grub-install. I'd do that first. A false move could wipe out your MBR. As I recall I completey destroyed the boot partition on a brand new HD while fumbling with GRUB. But it was still under warranty Whew! --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just put in a SATA drive into an otherwise PATA machine. I put Windows XP on the new drive. I added the following to my grub.conf: title=Windows XP rootnoverify (hd2,0) makeactive chainloader +1 but when I tell grub to boot this item, I get an otherwise blank screen with the text: rootnoverify (hd2,0) makeactive chainloader +1 and nothing else happens. I have never had difficulty getting grub to play with Windows in the past, but that was always with PATA hardware. I have tried editing the grub configuration at boot time to see if grub doesn't like my drive number or something. I used the TAB autocompletion feature which lists three disks (hd0, hd1, and hd2). The former two are definitely my raid array based on the number of partitions they contain. The latter has only one partition (according to grub's TAB autocompletion) which is as it should be given that it is obviously the Windows disk. I'm at a loss here. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm afraid I have to use my BIOS to switch boot disks until I resolve this. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Grub won't boot SATA WinXP disk
On 22/04/06, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've done this on SATA and IDE drives and combos of the same and I never got XP to boot unless I used rootnoverify (hd0,0). Macro$haft insists on being first in my experience. FWIW. The map command bypasses that little problem, by virtually fooling the M$Windoze OS to see that it is in the first hard drive. Make a grub boot disk(if you haven't already) and practice until you find the proper sequence of commands; then you can put them into a conf file and do a grub-install. I'd do that first. A false move could wipe out your MBR. So would an 'intentional' move to install Grub in the MBR of the first device. A boot floppy is handy, but as long as Grub boots normally you can press 'c' to drop into a command prompt and use find to find whatever partition you're after, or 'e' to edit individual entries in the menu, until the particular OS boots. As I recall I completey destroyed the boot partition on a brand new HD while fumbling with GRUB. But it was still under warranty Whew! Using the fixmbr command from a WinXP installation CD would restore it. Better though to install Grub's boot code in the MBR. BTW, the fixboot command will restore the partition boot sector in a hosed WinXP partition. None of this will help with a hardware failure of course, and I am at a loss as to how any software manipulation that Grub can perform would damage a hard drive. In conclusion, I agree with Christopher's suggestion that the only way to make WinXP boot from any other than the first drive is to use the map command. A point to note is that WinXP is installed on the third device so instead of hd1, hd0 you may want to try hd2, hd0. Good luck. -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Grub won't boot SATA WinXP disk
On Saturday 22 April 2006 11:22 am, Christopher E wrote: Hello there, Try adding a map in there like this map (hd1) (hd0) map (hd0) (hd1) now I am assuming that your windows is on /dev/sdb in linux or its it your first drive if it is /dev/sdb the above code should work, put this under the windows title :-) the reason you are puting this twice is to swap both of the dirves Hope that helps Sincerely, Christopher Problem solved! My system is arranged thusly: Grub is installed on hd0 and hd1 (they are a RAID mirror). These are known as hda and hdc in Linux. Windows is installed on hd2,0. This is known as sda1 in Linux. I had to add: title=Windows doesn't play nicely with others map (hd2) (hd0) map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd2) rootnoverify (hd2,0) makeactive chainloader +1 to my grub.conf. Actually, I could simply do these maps instead: map (hd2) (hd0) map (hd0) (hd2) since hd0 is identical to hd1. Thanks for all the help, everyone. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
