Dual booting Win2k & Gentoo problems (Grub - Error 13)

Chompy · n00b Joined: 15 Oct 2003 Posts: 12 Location: Sydney

Okays, I have finished the Stage 3 installation, with everything by default and I wanted to have my system to dual boot Win2k & Gentoo. Throughout the installation I had been using this guide - IG2: How to install Gentoo in a Win XP/NT config
. Now the problems I am having is I cannot mount the Floppy drive to copy the boot image into windows. I can mount the windows Paritition ... in read mode. Any help.

Using grub, I've emerged it, Can access Windows Partition just as easy. My paritions are like this.:
/dev/hda1 - NTFS - Windows
/dev/hda2 - Windows boot or something.
/dev/hda3 - Linux boot - ext2
/dev/hda4 - Linux Swap
/dev/hda5 - Linux - ext3

I'm just wondering if it would be easier not to use grub an switch over to Lilo. Or to install the bootloader onto the MBR??? Also just for backups sake, after I get this bootloader working proerly, how would I create a bootdisk with it on it?

cyrillic · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 12:48 am Post subject:

I would advise installing GRUB into the MBR.

Here is a quick guide for creating a GRUB boot floppy.
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=118147
You can use this to test your configuration before actually installing GRUB on the harddrive.

Chompy · n00b Joined: 15 Oct 2003 Posts: 12 Location: Sydney

Thanks for that quick reply

, I've done the grub stuff that had been stated in the link you sent. I can get grub to boot into my windows partition and thats about it. When I try to boot up into gentoo this happens:

deadaim · Guru Joined: 27 Oct 2003 Posts: 467 Location: Florida

Go into the LiveCD, mount your partitions as described in section 4e of the handbook, then chroot as described in section 6a of the handbook. Once you do that, type the following:

LostSon · Guru Joined: 21 Nov 2003 Posts: 514 Location: Wisconsin

I would suggest buying another HD and installing windows as the slave drive. HD's are cheap nowadays anyway

Chompy · n00b Joined: 15 Oct 2003 Posts: 12 Location: Sydney

deadaim: I've ls -l boot, and it came up with config-2.4.24. And I'm wonderin' why has it changed names, and does it matter if it not named "kernel-2.4.24"????

LostSon: I have a spare harddrive, just not very big 4 + 3 gigs. The hard drive I'm working on has 120Gigs.

I have changed the grub.conf to config-2.4.24 and we are progress down the error tree

. At least I'm moving forward. This error is what I get

slycordinator · Advocate Joined: 31 Jan 2004 Posts: 3065 Location: Korea

That file, config-2.4.24 isn't the kernel obviously. Otherwise, trying to boot from it would work.

What you need to do is:
as root and in a shell go into the directory that you have those vanilla-sources installed (probably /usr/src/2.4.24 or something similar). Run through the commands for installing the kernel. Make sure /root is mounted and copy the kernel over to /boot.

Then you can edit your /boot/grub/grub.conf to use the new kernel.

It's obvious that your 2.4.24 kernel either isn't installed to /boot or it is and you just named it something strange.

monkey89 · Guru Joined: 08 Mar 2004 Posts: 596

Am I losing it... or are there 5 primary partitions there?

Shouldn't there be 3 primary, 1 extended, and the rest logical?

slycordinator · Advocate Joined: 31 Jan 2004 Posts: 3065 Location: Korea

cyrillic · config-2.4.24

Chompy · n00b Joined: 15 Oct 2003 Posts: 12 Location: Sydney

Yea... I remerged the kernel, using the genkernel (wasn't too happy about doing it) but it works fine. I can get into Gentoo!!!!! happy

If you were wondering the Windows partition one is extended. I created the linux partitions through Partition magic.

Thanks to your replies, I hope I can be of some help to other newbies in the future