> What ever drive the BIOS reports as the bootable drive may be considered > drive C: by windows, I think. FWIW you have grub booting Gentoo on the > first drive (hd0/hda), so why not change the boot order back and install > grub on hda with an updated grub.conf. > I was looking at this as another option but I was concerned because im not sure how to go about a grub install on a windows filesystem. I dont want to mess up the windows installation I have to reinstall that one enough as it is. I will look into installing grub there because it seems the easiest solution.
>here is your problem. hda1 is (hd0,0) in grubspeak, not (hd1,0) >From the gentoo installation handbook: "Hard drives count from zero rather than "a" and partitions start at zero rather than one. Be aware too that with the hd devices, only hard drives are counted, not atapi-ide devices such as cdrom players and burners. Also, the same construct is used with scsi drives. (Normally they get higher numbers than ide drives except when the bios is configured to boot from scsi devices.) When you ask the BIOS to boot from a different hard disk (for instance your primary slave), that harddisk is seen as hd0." For my setup hda1 is equal to (hd1,0) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
