Op Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:08:14 +0100 schreef Andrew Benton
<[email protected]>:
> Hello World!
> In order to make room for more games (the only reason I run Windows) I
> recently reinstalled Windows XP on a separate hard disk. If I go into
> the BIOS boot menu and get the BIOS to boot that disk then Windows
> boots fine. However, I can't get grub to boot it. The screen goes blank
> and I get a cursor blinking in the top left corner. The relevant entry
> in grub.cfg looks like this:
>
> menuentry "Windows" {
> set root=(hd1,1)
> chainloader +1
> }
>
> I get the same result if I try this:
>
> menuentry "Windows" {
> set root=(hd0,1)
> chainloader +1
> }
>
> /dev/sda1 is currently blank. Windows is installed on /dev/sdb1.
>
> andy:~$ cat /boot/grub/device.map
> (hd0) /dev/sda
> (hd1) /dev/sdb
> andy:~$
>
> I've a feeling this is because I have grub installed on the MBR of my
> linux disk and in the BIOS boot order the windows disk is the second
> one. I think windows XP likes to be on the first partition of the first
> disk.
I do not think so. I have three XP-installations on two harddisks and they
all boot fine.
I have Grub 2 on the first harddisk (hd0) and it boots XP on the 2nd
harddisk with:
menuentry "Windows NT/2000/XP (loader) (on /dev/sdb1)" {
insmod fat
set root=(hd1,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 14bf-ed52
drivemap -s (hd0) ${root}
chainloader +1
(result of update-grub and grub-install in Linux Mint on the 1st harddisk)
It does not boot XP on the 1st harddisk, but I have not had the time to
figure out why.
If I know more, I let you know, but I give priority to building LFS 6.7
(problem building gcc;
did something wrong in the toolchain, I presume).
Maybe also this site can help you:
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=3106368.0
See under the heading The Quick-and-Dirty Solution.
Hans.
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