David Rose <prov...@gmail.com> writes: > > GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory) > > [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB > lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible > completions of a device/filename.] > > grub> root (hd > Possible disks are: hd0 hd1 > > grub> root (hd0,0) > Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7 > > grub> root (hd1, > Possible partitions are: > Partition num: 0, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > Partition num: 1, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x8e > > grub> root (hd1,0) > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
OK, so GRUB says that your NTFS partition is (hd0,0) and that your Linux partition is (hd1,0); so now that we've done a sanity-check, I gather (never done it myself...) that you should be able to run through this sequence of commands to boot Windows (NOTE: don't change the drive- configuration--it'll cause the numbers the change): rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 boot I'd try that on GRUB's command-shell, so that you can verify that each step is working--if you can't run through the whole series and end up booting the OS, at what point does something fail? Now, I note that this `Windows on (hd0,0) and Linux on (hd1,0)' is exactly the opposite of what you had in your first message, where you wrote: Initially, I had Windows as the first drive and tried to have the choice using "boot.ini". I have since switched the drives[...] Have you since switched them back? Is that how the Windows disk became #0? Or is your computer doing something weird and, I don't know... randomising them at boot? And if the Windows disk is `the first one' (and I'm not entirely sure what that means with SATA + your BIOS...), how is it that you're booting into GRUB? Is GRUB installed into the boot-record on the Windows drive, or do you have the BIOS set up to `boot from the second drive', or...? -- "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))." _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/