You may want to consult this article titled "Booting Windows on second HD with Grub". It appears that MS _insists_ on being loaded on the 1st hdd. The way around that appears to be the use of "map" option in grub.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/print/479 HTH, Hendrik Schaink Shawn wrote: > I found a need to install another drive win2k on my desktop, and now I'm > trying to get Grub configured for dual booting. I've done this in the path, > but something odd is happening now.... > > The box has 3 physical drives in it. It's booting off an IDE drive > (/dev/hda1), which translates to (hd0,0). I have a SATA drive that gets > mounted and used for file storage only. Now, I've added another IDE drive as > a slave (on the primary IDE controller - same as the first ide drive). > > So, as I understand grub, my second IDE drive should be (hd1,0) (first > partition is Windows). So I set up grub like so: > > title = Windows 2000 > rootnoverify (hd1,0) > makeactive > chainloader +1 > > And this didn't work - it displayed the grub contents on screen to me, and > halts - with no errors indicated. > > So, I went into the grub shell and tried to use tab-completion to find what > drives I have available: > > grub> root (hd > Possible disks are: hd0 hd1 hd2 > > Well, hd0 is my main hard drive, and hd1 and hd2 are the sata drive, and the > new(er) slave IDE drive - but which is which? > > I tried to edit the rootnoverify line in the grub config to use hd2, and now > get an Error 13 - something about a file not in executable format. So, hd2 > gives *some* response, but hd1 doesn't. (btw, I did try to use simply > "root (hd2,0)" - but this resulted in another grub specific error). > > If it helps, Win2K was installed by disconnecting all the drives except the > slave - and made that one a master for the period of time needed to install. > > Anyone have any tips? Thanks. > > Shawn > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying -- Hendrik M. Schaink Chief Consultant "Integrated Business Solutions & Dependable Service" InfoVision Consulting Calgary, Alberta, Canada Phone: (403) 239-0099 "The Vision: We are the partners of choice for companies and organizations that share our commitment to creating a world that is truly wise, courageous, prosperous, innovative, inclusive, sustainable and humane." --Ruben Nelson GPG Fingerprint: 1371 0927 8C3C 831F A838 C312 68BC F5DB 010D F3D7 _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
