[gentoo-user] Dell Latitude c840/grub problems

[Wouter Depuydt]

Hello,

I'm Having problems installing grub on a Dell Latitude c840. Everything builds/installs fine but upon first reboot, grub hangs: "loading grub ..." and there it stops.
My disk layout on a 40GB harddisk:
hda2 : NTFS - Windows2000
hda1: extended partition
hda5: linux swap
hda6: Gentoo linux
hda7: FAT32 - data

My grub.conf/menu.lst file:
default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,5)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title=Windows2000 Professional
root (hd0,1)
chainloader +1

title=Gentoo Linux
root (hd0,5)
kernel (hd0,5)/boot/bzImage-2.4.19-r10 root=/dev/hda6

I installed Gentoo on a number of other machines and this is the first one that gave me problems.

Installing Lilo allowed me to boot Gentoo, but I could not choose booting Windows. Lilo automatically booted the default image (Gentoo Linux) although I had the timeout set to 1000.

The only option so far for dualbooting this machine is writing the Lilo boot loader to the first sectors of the gentoo partition, copying these sectors to a file on my Windows System disk and using the Windows bootloader. However everytime I want to make a change to my Lilo.conf file I have to run lilo again, copy these bootsectors to the FAT32 partition, boot in Windows and copy that bootsector-file to my Windows Systemdisk.

Wouter ;-)

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