need help booting windows 2000 via grub

chiatello

ok well my friend jsut made it so his system has all the linux things onthe first hdd, and windows on second

but i still need windows 2000 to boot, off of grub

Digiman · Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 10:49 pm Post subject:

chiatello · Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 11:01 pm Post subject:

no but the windows is the slave drive

chiatello · Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 11:07 pm Post subject:

when he boots to winodws he gets

Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format

chiatello · Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 11:41 pm Post subject:

now we're getting an error 21
selected disk does not exist

cyrillic · Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2003 2:10 am Post subject:

Try this.

theredoctober · n00b Joined: 09 Dec 2003 Posts: 6

cyrillic · Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2003 1:29 am Post subject:

The "active" flag is also known as the "bootable" flag. This flag is normally set on the Windows partition when you install Windows. Only the Windows bootloader actually cares about this flag. GRUB, LILO, and the Linux kernel can boot from any partition.

Fdisk shows the bootable flag as a * in the column marked "Boot"

theredoctober · n00b Joined: 09 Dec 2003 Posts: 6

thanks man i really appecirate the help

theredoctober · n00b Joined: 09 Dec 2003 Posts: 6

blah i still get the error, any more ideas?

cyrillic · Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 1:45 am Post subject:

When you boot to the GRUB menu, press c to get a command prompt, then use GRUB's tab-completion to see if the BIOS can access all of your drives.

theredoctober · n00b Joined: 09 Dec 2003 Posts: 6

yes u were right, only the hd0 completed, any idea on how to fix it?

theredoctober · n00b Joined: 09 Dec 2003 Posts: 6

i also thought that there might be somthing wrong w/ the mbr on the windows drive, so i used the install disks to fix the mbr, but i still get the error, when i did this i made sure to plug the windows into master and had my linux hd unplugged

is it possible that i fucked somthing up when i fixed the mbr on the slave(windows) drive?

cyrillic · Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2003 12:11 am Post subject:

snipingkills · Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2003 1:41 pm Post subject:

bruor · Apprentice Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Posts: 239

if you are using map to change which drive that it is when you load up windows it may appear to be in a different place than where the system expects it....

if you have a drive as master with windows and then install a master with linux and move the windows drive to slave, ntloader will still say that it needs to boot from disk0 but in actuality windows is now on disk1 the same would also happen if you were to tell grub to do it to, im assuming thats what map does, ive had problems dual booting in the past with xp and where grub has failed lilo has worked....

hope this helps a bit...

theredoctober · n00b Joined: 09 Dec 2003 Posts: 6

i went into my bios and i found the slave drive's ide configuration..i set it to auto...i no longer get the 21 error, but when i try to run the windows option, it comes up w/ somthing like...grub stage 2.0...then it stalls

also i think i am going to try to work it out with grub. if i lose all hope i might try lilo