Hmmm, my problem is specific to GRUB. I can easily boot the machine to any of
the OS's by rejumpering drives. Here is my exact config.
Drive 0 (Primary, IDE)
Partition 1 - /boot - GRUB and Boot
Partition 2 - Windows XP (E: Drive)
Partition 3 - /
Partition 4 - first logical - swap
- second logical - F: Drive - Data
Drive 1 (Slave, IDE, same IDE Channel)
Partition 1 - Windows 98SE (Drive C: both if rejumpered as master or in this
exact same configuration as recognized by Windows XP, I can mount it under Linux
as /mnt/win98se and easily read the drive (/dev/hdb1))
With this environment I can easily boot, via GRUB to both Windows XP and Linux.
The problem is that I can't boot the Windows 98SE drive. Should I be able to?
I know this would not normally work but GRUB does some things to allow it (I
think). I know the drives are up and running normally. This is simply a GRUB
boot question. Does anyone have something similar running? The GRUB manual
gives some great advice but I can't get any combination to work.
TIA, GGK
Ben Boulanger wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Greg Kettmann wrote:
> > So here's the problem. I put back my original hard drive as a slave on
> > the IDE channel. It comes up as a C: drive. I tried adding it to the
> > GRUB menu, but I can't get it to boot. Should I be able to boot this
> > Windows 98SE drive? When I tell it to boot from (1,0) it just hangs,
> > although first it does identify the drive as being VFAT or FAT32. I
> > tried using the Map (0,1) and Map (1,0). I tried at least 20 different
> > variations but couldn't get it to boot. I don't have my notes with me
> > right now but I used the commands exactly as stated in the GRUB manual.
>
> Hi Greg,
> I'm new to the list, so if your setup is common knowledge, I
> apologize. In any case, is the new drive SCSI? If so, your onboard IDE
> will take the first physical drive slots (C,D,E,F under dos/windows if
> you have 2 controllers). I don't know of a way around that... I think
> you'd have to initialize your SCSI BIOS before your IDE BIOS, but maybe
> someone else has an idea there.
>
> If it's not SCSI, and you're working with all IDE drives... I'd
> like to understand the setup a little better. You've got 2 physical hard
> drives, 1 is the new one you installed RH7.2, dual boot with XP on and the
> other is your original 98/SE drive? If you're sure you've got the jumpers
> on those configured to Master/Slave correctly, they should be working.
> What -might- be happening under XP, though, is that - IIRC - the physical
> disk's primary partitions get mapped first, so - if you have 2 drives,
> lets call them hda and hdb, and you have 2 partitions on hda and one on
> hdb (hda1, hda2, hdb1) then they'll map like this under windows:
> hda1 - C: (Assuming it's a windows partition type)
> hdb1 - D: ( " )
> hda2 - E: ( " )
>
> Now, if you don't have a windows partition type on any of them, just bump
> up the lower ones... which - sounds to me like what could be going on for
> you - on hda1, you have linux - unrecognizeable partitionunder windows,
> So, hdb1 becomes C and hda2 becomes D....
>
> There's a couple of ways to solve this that might work, one, you might try
> and throw a small linux partition in front of your 98/SE partition, making
> the primary be unrecognizeable... but that's really not as clean as just
> wiping the old drive and installing XP on there. Not sure if it's a good
> size or not, but, that does seem the cleanest option all around.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Ben
>
> --
>
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> excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
> ~ Sun Tzu
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