Anyone successful gotten GRUB to dual boot with XP

Techie2000 · Guru Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 344

I've been trying to get it to work but keep having problems. I'm debating whether to get rid of Gentoo and just install the latest Red Hat. So I just want to see if anyone was successful in this. I do not use a /boot partiton, just:

/dev/hda1 XP
/dev/hda2 FAT32 Shared Data
/dev/hda3 ext3
/dev/hda4 SWAP

freefall · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Apr 2002 Posts: 89

Techie2000 · Guru Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 344

When it comes up it says GRUB is loading but then nothing happens. It just hangs.

CalicoJck · Guest

Where is Grub installed? If it's on your hda3, it may be over the 1024 boundary. I would suggest making a separate /boot partition at the beginning of the drive. I don't know about free software, but I resized my partitions with Partition Magic, and it worked like a charm without any data loss. Hope that helps.

Techie2000 · Guru Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 344

For more information on my problem I got a post in the installation help forum. GRUB is on hda3. When I had SuSE this setup worked fine.

Guest · Posted: Mon May 20, 2002 2:33 am Post subject:

Guest · Posted: Mon May 20, 2002 2:48 am Post subject:

I dual boot Gentoo/MS Windows XP via Grub. Here is my menu.lst. Use it as a skelleton for your config.
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timeout 7
#color yellow/red light-red/black
splashimage=(hd0,4)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
default 0

title Gentoo
kernel (hd0,4)/bzImage root=/dev/md0 hdd=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi

title Windows XP
root (hd0,1)
makeactive
chainloader +1

title Gentoo - old kernel
kernel (hd0,4)/bzImage.old root=/dev/md0 hdd=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi

title Floppy
root (fd0)
chainloader +1
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My setup is /dev/md0 for my linux root fs, /dev/hda5 for the boot partition, and Windows XP on /dev/hda2. You'll have to change those devices according to your set up.

I installed Grub on MBR on /dev/hda via an install.sh script I stole from Mandrake. Here it is:
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grub --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map --batch <<EOF
install (hd0,4)/grub/stage1 d (hd0) (hd0,4)/grub/stage2 p (hd0,4)/grub/menu.lst
quit
EOF
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Here you must replace (hd0,4) with your boot partition and (hd0) with the hard disc were you want install grub.

Good luck. If it fails you can try Lilo ... or redhat, at least you'll have no problems installing the boot manager with redhat ;-)

hudsonhauck · Posted: Mon May 20, 2002 4:44 am Post subject:

Yeah, works fine here too. Is there anyway to change that background where you pick which one you want to boot off? This is the image: "splashimage=(hd0,4)/grub/splash.xpm.gz " What is a .xpm file (I know that .gz is gzipped). Except a high-q image might not turn out too well. It looks like the pallette might not be too big. Thought it might be cool...
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FINITE · Guru Joined: 10 May 2002 Posts: 449

When you set up grub did you -install- to the mbr of the xp partition? Also did you set teh chainloader option in the grub config file?

xpender · Posted: Tue May 21, 2002 10:29 am Post subject:

Here's the error:

Guest · Posted: Tue May 21, 2002 4:18 pm Post subject:

jay · l33t Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 980

small tip: use rootnoverify (hdX,X) instead of root (hdX,X) this has helped in my case!
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Techie2k · Guest

Update: I somehow managed to nuke my XP partition so started a new Gentoo install from scratch. I used all the defaults. 2 times I forgot to compile keyboard support into the kernel. Anyways GRUB works fine now

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lasa · Posted: Tue May 21, 2002 8:49 pm Post subject:

This is how I configured GRUB with Windows XP:

title Windows XP
map (hd0,0) (hd2,0)
map (hd2,0) (hd0,0)
rootnoverify (hd2,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

The mappings trick XP to think that it is on the first partition of the first disk, which is necessary for it to find the NTLDR. Switch for whatever partition or disk you have XP on.

-lasa-