On Wednesday 13 September 2006 02:07, John Pierce wrote:
Hello, I have 3 hard drives and one dvd-rw installed in my machine, I just added the third drive with win2k.
Configuration:
Primary IDE Master => /dev/hda => GRUB hd0 -- 160 Gb Seagate Primary IDE Slave => /dev/hdb => GRUB hd1 -- 160 Gb Western Digital Secondary IDE Master => /dev/hdc => GRUB hd2 ( I thought ) -- 20 Gb Seagate Secondary IDE Slave => /dev/hdd => GRUB hd3 -- Maddog DVD-RW
If I unplug both drives from the Primary IDE controller then the win2k drive will boot and I see the 20 GB and the Maddog.
If I use grub from the MBR of /dev/hda then it boots the grub loader and I can boot opensuse 10.1 with no problem, if I try the selection for Win2K then it gives me an error saying invalid device. <SNIP> Can anyone shed some light on this problem?
IIANM, Windows can only boot if it believes it is installed on the first hard drive in the system. check out http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/DOS_002fWindows.html#DOS_0... for details
Thanks in advance!
John -- Registered Linux User 263680, get counted at http://counter.li.org