On Sunday 14 December 2003 08:09 am, Marek Sulovsky wrote:
> I have a problem using grub to dual boot. I have Win98 on /dev/hdb1
> (marked as bootable) and Linux on /dev/hda1. I have GRUB configured
> like this:
>
> title Gentoo Linux GS
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-2.4.23_pre8-gss root=/dev/hda1 hdc=ide-scsi
>
> title Windows 98
> rootnoverify (hd1,0)
> makeactive
> chainloader +1
>
> Linux boots ok, but whenever I select Windows 98 - computer reboots
> immediately (no error msg - just reboots). I have tried some other
> configurations but with the same result.
>
> When I swap the disks in the computer (hdb becomes hda), windows
> boot without a problem.
>
> Does anybody know whether this could be a problem of grub ? Or just
> windows don't like being on non-primary disk :-) ?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marek
>
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I've never tried putting win on the second hdd.  I thought it was possible.
Can you read the second hdd when in linux.
That would rule out master/slave switches or the auto function not working.
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Jim


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