Mark
Rather than trying to manually edit Grub use DrakConf/Tools for booting.
Then choose the option Configure Lilo/Grub.
In the boot options menu if Windows is not shown as hdb1 then you need to
Remove
that entry and then Add the correct entry.
Accept the changes you have made and reboot your system.
On reboot you should now be able to boot Windows.
If the above for some reason did not work your best bet is to reinstall Grub
and let it auto pick-up your Windows boot record.
Charles (-:
Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Stewart
> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 11:57 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [newbie] grub and Windows
>
>
> Well, here's what I did. I unplugged my old disk from the
> primary master,
> plugged the new disk into primary master, had my friend
> install Windows98
> (he moved fast and I'm not exactly sure how he structured
> things but I think
> its all one big FAT32 partition), booted successfully, and obsessively
> played Black & White for a day ;-). Once I recovered, I
> unplugged the new
> Windows-only disk, set its jumpers for the slave position and
> attached it to
> the primary slave IDE connector and reconnected my old disk
> to the primary
> master connector, then set about configuring my menu.lst file.
>
> Here's how I set it up based on info from the mini-HOWTO and
> an article from
> Linux Gazette:
>
> title Windows98
> map (hd0) (hd1)
> map (hd1) (hd0)
> rootnoverify (hd0,0)
> makeactive
> chainloader +1
> boot
>
> I rebooted and when grub presented the list select "Windows98". I
> immediately got the following message: "Error: invalid or unsupported
> executable format. Press any key to continue."
>
> So I tried modifying various bits:
>
> -removed the second map command, thinking perhaps it was swapping the
> virtual map back to the way it started. No change.
> -changed rootnoverify to just root. No change.
> -removed the boot line. No change.
> -tried changing the partition specified as root--thinking
> perhaps my friend
> had actually installed on a second or third partition. rootnoverify
> (hd0,1) -> "Invalid device requested" and rootnoverify
> (hd0,2) -> "No such
> partition"
>
> One bit of additional, and possibly irrelevant, info: a few
> months earlier
> under Mdk7.1 I had been trying to get grub to recognize all
> my system's RAM
> and, for some reason, ran the lilo command. After that I no
> longer got the
> grub menu at startup (though I still booted up just fine) and
> I instead
> would see a bunch of black and white text graphics that described my
> hardware that I assumed was coming from lilo. Then I installed (not
> upgraded) mdk7.2. Grub came back again but I still got the
> black and white
> coming up first. So I'm wondering if I've still got lilo
> installed on the
> master boot record and it's chaining itself to grub somehow
> and that is what
> is preventing from booting from the Win98 partition.
>
>
>
> > I use 2 copies of windows, one for general use and one for
> audio work.
> > to do this i had to do as u suggest and format both drives when
> > there were
> > primary master, ( actually i THINK i even installed windows
> on the one i
> > moved to 2nd master by booting the machine from ide 2, it was
> > none the wiser
> > to my trickery as the disk had been setup as primary master hehe)
> > If u are reinstalling linux grub should see your windows in its
> > new posistion
> > ( it seen both mine with no help from me) if not then i am
> certain u can
> > point it at it...just not sure how as i havent had to.
> >
>
>
>
