HELP!! Can't boot Windows Me on second disk with GRUB
Hi I have installed SuSE 8.1 Professional on my 70Gb UDMA Master Primary disk and moved my Windows Me installation to my 20Gb UDMA Slave Primary disk. When using LILO under SuSE 8.0 Professional this arrangement worked but the move to GRUB in 8.1 has broken the system. I checked the GRUB Info pages and discovered that like under LILO there is a drive mapping command that allows the OS on the second harddrive to be fooled into thinking it is on the first. However, this Map command does not appear to work as advertised:- 1) If I try editing the /boot/grub/menu.lst via YaST2 it will only allow me to enter 1 map command 2) If I try to concatenate the two mapping commands with a semi-colon (as per LILO) the second command appears to be ignored 3) If I edit the menu.lst file manually and put them on seperate lines then windows will appear to hang at the splash screen (however, if I remove the mapping from (hd0) to (hd1) then Windows boots but all windows partitions appear twice!) As I use Windows as a fallback for Games which either dont run native under linux (unlike Quake III, RTCW, and soon NWN) or dont run under WineX (yet), I would like to get this resolved ASAP. Preferably using GRUB as it would be a pain to have to reinstall everything just so LILO can have a small EXT2 partition at the start of the disk. On a side note and slightly [OT] I would like to say that SuSE Linux just keeps on improving from version to version and would like to thank the SuSE Team for producing (perhaps?) the best distribution on the market. Many Thanks Roger -- Roger L.S. Griffiths BSc (Hons) Artificial Intelligence & Computer Science "Gott wurfelt nicht" (God does not play dice) - Albert Einstein
Roger Griffiths [ Wed, 23 Oct 2002 05:34:51 +0100]:
I checked the GRUB Info pages and discovered that like under LILO there is a drive mapping command that allows the OS on the second harddrive to be fooled into thinking it is on the first. However, this Map command does not appear to work as advertised
There is an english SDB article that's not yet available, according to that article entry like this should do the trick: title windows root (hd1,0) makeactive chainloader +1 map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) Philipp -- Philipp Thomas work: pthomas@suse.de Development SuSE Linux AG private: pth@t-link.de
Philipp Thomas wrote:
Roger Griffiths [ Wed, 23 Oct 2002 05:34:51 +0100]:
I checked the GRUB Info pages and discovered that like under LILO there is a drive mapping command that allows the OS on the second harddrive to be fooled into thinking it is on the first. However, this Map command does not appear to work as advertised
There is an english SDB article that's not yet available, according to that article entry like this should do the trick:
title windows root (hd1,0) makeactive chainloader +1 map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0)
Philipp
Worked for me. THANKS! Will YaST2's Bootloader Configuration utility be fixed to allow more than 1 map line for grub? Stan
SRGlasoe
Worked for me. THANKS!
You're welcome :)
Will YaST2's Bootloader Configuration utility be fixed to allow more than 1 map line for grub?
I haven't checked, but I guess it will be fixed. Philipp -- Philipp Thomas work: pthomas@suse.de Development SuSE Linux AG private: pth@t-link.de
Hi Philip, On Wednesday 23 October 2002 07:04, Philipp Thomas wrote:
There is an english SDB article that's not yet available, according to that article entry like this should do the trick:
title windows root (hd1,0) makeactive chainloader +1 map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0)
I alreayd tried a similar entry:- title windows root (hd1,0) makeactive map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) chainloader +1 I tried it your way, to no avail. Either way the Windows Me just appears to be stuck in the windows splash screen :( Many Thanks Roger -- Roger L.S. Griffiths BSc (Hons) Artificial Intelligence & Computer Science "Gott wurfelt nicht" (God does not play dice) - Albert Einstein
Hi Guys, It turns out that Windows ME was at fault ... shame on me for doubting SuSE Linux ;-P Thanks for the help though! As a result of Micros***t's buggy OS I will be upgrading to XP for my windows system ... DAMN! I hate lining microsofts coffers! But I am told that XP is an improvement on ME ... well it better be at £200+. TTFN Roger -- Roger L.S. Griffiths BSc (Hons) Artificial Intelligence & Computer Science "Gott wurfelt nicht" (God does not play dice) - Albert Einstein
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Philipp Thomas
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Roger L.S. Griffiths, BSc (Hons)
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SRGlasoe