I just finished installing grub on hda and after one typo in my grub.conf everything is now working great. Thanks for the help guys
A.J. On 5/24/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > AJ Spagnoletti wrote: > > >>What ever drive the BIOS reports as the bootable drive may be considered > >>drive C: by windows, I think. FWIW you have grub booting Gentoo on the > >>first drive (hd0/hda), so why not change the boot order back and install > >>grub on hda with an updated grub.conf. > >> > >> > >> > >I was looking at this as another option but I was concerned because im > >not sure how to go about a grub install on a windows filesystem. I > >dont want to mess up the windows installation I have to reinstall that > >one enough as it is. I will look into installing grub there because it > > > > > > Just install grub to the MBR on hda, not to hda1. It won't corrupt the > filesystem. Just know that if you ever do reinstall windows, it will > overwrite the MBR, and you will have to boot from a live CD, mount and > chroot into your linux system, and re-execute the grub "setup" command. > > The grub commands for this should be something like: > > root (hd1,0) > setup (hd0) > > If it doesn't work, you can always change the boot order back and try > again. > > HTH > > -Richard > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- [email protected] mailing list
