Hello to everyone, I'm trying to achieve the most simple dual boot possible : Linux & Windows on the same hd. Trivial? I Think not!
Here is my new 160GB hard drive scheme, after being dd if=/dev/zero bs=512 out. hda1 ext2 hda2 swap hda3 reiserfs hda4 extended hda5 ext3 hda6 fat32 hda7 Linux (83) hda8 Linux (83) hda9 Linux (83) I started with installing xp. It complained about the fact it's not on the first partition, so during the installation I allowed it to delete hda1 (ext2) and make it fat32, so that is can copy it's ntldr to there The system (windows) itself got installed into hda5. It finished, I even tried to boot it and it worked. Then I boot from gentoo liveCD, mounted hda1, hda5. Copied all the files windows left on hda1 to hda5. Reformatted hda1 as ext2 and did a normal gentoo setup when the boot loader is grub. This is where the fun starts : When I try to boot into my windows installation I get this error : ************ rootnoverify (hd0,5) makeactive Error 12: Invalid device requested ************ The relevant part of my grub.conf looks like this ************ rootnoverify (hd0,5) makeactive chainloader +1 ************ I tried : 1. Booting from winxp setup cd, with the intention of doing a recovery to hda5. >> Windows simply reboots, it doesn't even gives me a shell to do fixboot / fixmbr. Reinstall of windows wont be a problem, but I think that it won't do any good either because the situation would be reproduced exactly. Calling MS for support is useless (obviously), they do not support "multibooting between various operation systems". Comments, Questions, Criticism ? all are welcome. Thank you. -- Cheers, Maxim Vexler (hq4ever). Do u GNU ? -- [email protected] mailing list
