On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 12:41:07AM -0400, Dan Brummett wrote:
> I'm about half way through a Gentoo install and Grub is starting to give me
> headaches.
> My problem is that I have 2 hard drives hda is a windows install and hdb is
> Gentoo and
> my BIOS only gives me the option to boot from the primary hard drive (hda).
> So I guess
> my question is how do I install Grub on hda with out wrecking windows? Oh
> and just to
> clarify I am POSITIVE that I can only boot from the primary drive (its a
> stupid old Dell
> motherboard that hasnt had its firmware updated in a long time).
Below is my grub.conf booting windows and linux. If linux is on your
second drive, say hdb1, swap the hd0,0 with hd1,0 . hd$x,$y implies $x
is the drive number, and $y is the partition. Fwiw, if you accidentally
wreck windows, you don't have to reinstall, just run the auto repair cd
that came with windows to fix the boot sector.
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Fedora Core (2.6.10-1.741_FC3)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.741_FC3 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
acpi_sleep=s3_bios
initrd /initrd-2.6.10-1.741_FC3.img
title Win
root (hd0,1)
makeactive
chainloader +1
