RE: [newbie] grub and Windows
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.
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.
RE: [newbie] grub and Windows
If you're talking about Windows 95/98/Me, I doubt it. But I'm no expert. NT/2000 should be able to do it, though. Hmm. Yes, I am talking about installing Windows98. At least two other people have replied that they had success but I don't think they specified which versions of Windows they were using. SteveC, et al? Were you folks using Win9x/me or NT/2000? Again, thanks, ::mark --- Mark Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've read fragments of info in various places that suggest that Grub will allow me to boot Windows from a disk that is not in the master position of my primary IDE channel. Is this true? I just added a second 15gb disk to my currently Linux only box. Can I temporarily put this disk into the master position on the primary channel to install Windows then move the disk to the slave position (still on the primary IDE channel), point grub at its new position, and successfully boot into Windows? Would it work if the disk was on the secondary IDE channel? Thanks, ::mark __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
RE: [newbie] grub and Windows
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Stewart Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 10:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] grub and Windows If you're talking about Windows 95/98/Me, I doubt it. But I'm no expert. NT/2000 should be able to do it, though. Hmm. Yes, I am talking about installing Windows98. At least two other people have replied that they had success but I don't think they specified which versions of Windows they were using. SteveC, et al? Were you folks using Win9x/me or NT/2000? Again, thanks, ::mark --- Mark Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've read fragments of info in various places that suggest that Grub will allow me to boot Windows from a disk that is not in the master position of my primary IDE channel. Is this true? I just added a second 15gb disk to my currently Linux only box. Can I temporarily put this disk into the master position on the primary channel to install Windows then move the disk to the slave position (still on the primary IDE channel), point grub at its new position, and successfully boot into Windows? Would it work if the disk was on the secondary IDE channel? Windows 95/98/ME must be installed to hda1. Win2k can during installation be installed to a partition other than hda1. Once any version of Windows has been installed as long as you use a third party bootloader; BootMagic, SystemCommander, Lilo, Grub or other, Windows can be moved to Any partition on Any hd and will boot and run normally. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.
[newbie] grub and Windows
Hi, I've read fragments of info in various places that suggest that Grub will allow me to boot Windows from a disk that is not in the master position of my primary IDE channel. Is this true? I just added a second 15gb disk to my currently Linux only box. Can I temporarily put this disk into the master position on the primary channel to install Windows then move the disk to the slave position (still on the primary IDE channel), point grub at its new position, and successfully boot into Windows? Would it work if the disk was on the secondary IDE channel? Thanks, ::mark
Re: [newbie] grub and Windows
On Tuesday 24 April 2001 22:32, Mark Stewart wrote: Hi, I've read fragments of info in various places that suggest that Grub will allow me to boot Windows from a disk that is not in the master position of my primary IDE channel. Is this true? I just added a second 15gb disk to my currently Linux only box. Can I temporarily put this disk into the master position on the primary channel to install Windows then move the disk to the slave position (still on the primary IDE channel), point grub at its new position, and successfully boot into Windows? Would it work if the disk was on the secondary IDE channel? Thanks, ::mark 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.
