I tried all numbers from 0 to 9 I think in the boot loader, but to no avail. I mean putting 0 to in in for (hd0,?) What does that mean? Both os's are on the extended partition. Does that matter?
On Tuesday 08 July 2003 07:53 pm, Kekoa Vincent wrote: > On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 15:31, Ammon J Christiansen wrote: > > I posted before about problems with a dual winXP and RH9.0 system. It > > boots to Red Hat 9 fine, but doesn't when I try to boot to WinXP. Did > > it overwrite info on the MBR that WinXP needed? How can I recover the > > ability to boot to WinXP when I need to. > > You're going to want to edit your grub.conf file, usually found in > /boot/grub/grub.conf . Perhaps /etc/grub/grub.conf. Here's an example > grub.conf file: > > default=0 > timeout=10 > splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > title Red Hat Linux (2.4.7-10) > root (hd0,1) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.7-10 ro root=/dev/hda3 hdc=ide-scsi > initrd /initrd-2.4.7-10.img > title Windows XP > rootnoverify (hd0,0) > chainloader +1 > > Your RedHat option should work fine, since you can boot to RedHat, so > mainly concern yourself with the windows option. You may also want to > specify a suitable timeout, so grub will boot an option without user > intervention(default=0 specifies the first option to be default-- RedHat > with this example. default=1 would go into windowsXP). > > Make sure rootnoverify (hd0,0) points to the drive and partition windows is > on. Numbering of drives and partitions starts with 0, not 'a'(drives) or > '1'(partitions). (hd0,0) in grub would mean the same as /dev/hda1 in most > configurations. > > By the way, it looks like GRUB is on the MBR, but it isn't a problem, since > windows xp's boot sector is on the partition, not in the MBR. > > Hope this helps. > > -Kekoa > > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
