I am attempting to use the map and hide commands in conjunction to run Windows 98 off a hard drive as the Slave on my Primary controller. My setup is
hd0,0 fat32 currently unused hd0,1 fat32 currently unused hd0,6 ext2 Debian hd0,7 ext2 Mandrake hd1,0 fat32 Windows 98 hde (not sure what it would be referred to as in grub) fat32 File Storage The quick question, is how can I have Windows boot, and hide everything on hd0. The long explanation of what I attempted is as follows: Originally my options in my menu.lst file for loading windows were root (hd1,0) map (0x81) (0x80) #0x80 and 0x81 were the parameters give by Mandrake. map (0x80) (0x81) makeactive chainloader +1 This worked fine, except that the two unused fat32 partitions show up in Windows and confused it as to where things were installed. So I decided to hide the partitions. To do this I added the following two lines under the map lines: hide (hd0,0) hide (hd0,1) Then when I booted into windows again, it loaded up fine, except that when I went into My Computer, it did not show any drives and was continually searching for a drive. Though I did have access to the C drive. Then Windows failed to shutdown properly (nothing out of the normal), but then when I rebooted grub died before I got to the boot menu. I used a grub boot disk, and it was identifying both hd0 and hd1 as having two fat32 partitions and nothing more. I tried to use a rescue disk to boot into linux, but first it couldn't find the specified root partition. Eventually though I was able to get one of my rescue disks to find the partition. Unexpectedly on one reboot, the grub menu came back on it's own without me running update-grub at all. I then thought maybe since I had mapped the drives to each other I would have to refer to them by their mapped name. I changed the two hide statements to this: hide (hd1,0) hide (hd1,1) but then Windows couldn't even boot not knowing where it's files where located. After this I decided I should stop and get more information. Any help on understanding how to get this setup working would be much appreciated. If you need any more information, let me know. Thanks, Rob Mosher _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
