Windows XP on second hard drive

rernst · n00b Joined: 12 Mar 2004 Posts: 14

Hi,

I have scoured the posts but seem to have found none that specifically address my problem (pardon me if I overlooked it).
I have been successfully running Gentoo for quite a while in a box with three hard drives. I have only used the first hard drive.

Now I am trying to turn this into a dual boot system with XP on the second hard drive. To install XP on the second drive I unplugged the Linux drive and jumpered the second drive as the first one and XP installed and boots without a hitch. Now I rejumpered and Gentoo boots fine. I updated my grub.conf as follows:

Varean

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 8:44 pm Post subject:

Hi.

You should change your Windows XP entry in GRUB to

rernst · n00b Joined: 12 Mar 2004 Posts: 14

I added the blank line.
I changed the rootnoverify statement.

Now I do not receive the Error 13 but, after a few moments the message 'A disk read error has occurred. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart'.

I am unclear on the origins of this message.

Do I have to change my BOOT.INI (maybe the wrong forum to ask)?

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 9:12 pm Post subject:

When you select Windows XP from GRUB, does XP start loading or you get an immediate error?
Are you able to boot XP if you remove the first disk?
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rernst · n00b Joined: 12 Mar 2004 Posts: 14

Just verified again: When I jumper to the second drive, XP (Slipstream) boots just fine. When I use any of the statements above, I received the results I mentioned.

I am quite willing to let Windows be the first drive and my BIOS can boot to the second drive, but will I have to change my FSTAB and other specs if I use the map() for Gentoo?

Edit: I am not sure what it is that is loading there. No Windows logo or any other indication. The screen is not cleared. The only thing I see after ~ 5 seconds is the read error message.

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 10:09 pm Post subject:

I was looking at my /boot/grub/grub.conf

rernst · n00b Joined: 12 Mar 2004 Posts: 14

Same results. (Read error).

I am not sure whether it is of consequence but my whole setup is:

IDE0 Master: Linux
IDE0 Slave: XP
IDE1 Master: DVD RW
IDE1 Slave: Unformatted drive

I tried adding a 'boot' statement as the last one. I tried reversing the map() statements. No luck.

I saw a similar thread here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-April/msg00401.html

And I forgot: The XP partition is NTFS. It's a vaniall Windows install, no special drivers.

cyrillic · Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 12:52 am Post subject:

rernst · n00b Joined: 12 Mar 2004 Posts: 14

This is how far I got:

I unplugged the second drive - no success. Then I wired the windows drive on IDE1 channel 1 and the DVD-RW on channel 2 (slave).

I left the unformatted drive unplugged and all definitions as above.

*This* configuration multibooted.

I vaguely recall Windows' booting scheme preferring Master rather than Slave, so this may be related.
I have not been able to hook up the last drive as Slave for IDE0, which would probably require a modification of the grub configuration - or not?

Anyhow - it would appear as if multi-booting got a bit more complicated when dealing with more than one drive instead of a number of partitions.

Varean · Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 3:02 pm Post subject:

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 3:18 pm Post subject:

MickKi · Veteran Joined: 08 Feb 2004 Posts: 1173

You'll also need to reset your BIOS so that it registers the new order of your boot devices. What does your grub.conf look like now?
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rernst · n00b Joined: 12 Mar 2004 Posts: 14

The grub.conf is unchanged (as above). It would appear as if Windows (?) does not like to be on the slave drive

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I must admit I did not pursue hooking up the (small) third drive to see what would happen as I would have to remove both drives and reverse the order - It's just not worth it.

My bottom line is that I surmise this is not a grub info (it appears to chain to Windows loader in the failing case above) but Windoze then chokes.

kLUMSY bOT · n00b Joined: 23 Jul 2004 Posts: 69

JeffBlair · Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 1:47 pm Post subject:

I also remember someone saying one time that Windows does not like to boot unless it has the boot flag on the partition that it is on. Linux dosn't care if it has it or not. You could try that.