[NCLUG] GRUB and Windows XP

Jeff fetushead at comcast.net
Mon Jul 21 18:24:36 MDT 2003


Never mind, I've fixed it. I made a stupid mistake and thought that
/dev/hde3 would correspond to (hd0,3) in the grub config file.  It's
actually (hd0,2) since /dev/hde1 would be (hd0,0) to grub.

-Jeff 

On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 13:32, Jeff wrote:
> Here's my problem:
> 
> I have windows XP installed on /dev/hde3.  The rest of the drive
> (/dev/hde1; /dev/hde2; and /dev/hde4) are all linux related.  GRUB
> allows me to boot into Linux fine, but I can't seem to get into XP at
> all.  Here's my grub.conf file (using RH9):
> 
> 
> #boot=/dev/hde
> default=0
> timeout=10
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/fire.xpm.gz
>                                                                                 
> title Red Hat Linux (2.4.21J3)
>         root (hd0,0)
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21J3 ro root=/dev/hde2 hda=ide-scsi
>         initrd /initrd-2.4.21J3.img
>  title Windows XP
>         map (hd0) (hd3)
>         map (hd3) (hd0)
> 	rootnoverify (hd0,3)
> 	chainloader +1
> 
> I've messed around with the grub.conf file a bit and have tried different configurations, 
> but none seem to work.  Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> 
> -Jeff
> 
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