Hello all: I created a nightmare for myself the other night. I have two boxes at home. One linux server running 24x7 and a Win2K box with several drives and space for a linux installation. I figured it would be cool to install SuSE 8.1 ( which is running on the linux server box ) so that I can experiment with stuff without the possibility of messing up a "production" box. So I install SuSE on the Win2k box hoping to dual boot as needed. I let SuSE do its default GRUB install. Upon reboot of the machine after the install, Win2K booted and I don't see the GRUB Boot menu. I then get back into my Linux installation by booting the CD and selecting "Boot Installed OS". Linux booted fine. I figured at this point that I needed to tell GRUB to install the boot information to the first drive's MBR. Reboot - GRUB loads fine and I can boot into Linux, however, the Windows partitions for some reason don't boot. Now I decide to drop back 10 and punt. I boot from the Win2k cd and go into the repair console and issue the fixboot and fixmbr commands hoping to at least get back to being able to boot Win2k. No luck... now while booting nothing happens.. Any idea how I can get my Win2K booting again? And why the hell is it so difficult to get Linux ( GRUB ) to dual with Win2k? Thanks again, Jim
Jim Norton wrote:
I created a nightmare for myself the other night. I have two boxes
If Windows is on the first hard-disk, then /boot/grub/menu.lst: title Windows rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 makeactive This was taken from "info grub". If Windows is on the second hard-disk, then add this map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) hd0 is first hard-disk (ex. /dev/hda, /dev/sda, C:, IDE0 in BIOS) (hd0,0) first disk, first partition Learn the ways of the boot manager, and you won't suffer. -- Linux/Unix Systems Engineer http://www.genesys.ro Phone +40723-267961
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