Gentoo Installed, but now Windows doesn't boot..

doro1211 · Guru Joined: 06 Jun 2004 Posts: 312

If you changed the physical configuration of the hard drive, you'll confuse windows. If windows is used to being on the master, and you move it to the slave, it will freak, as the location of its kernel is hard coded. There are a couple things you can do to fix this.

1) Reinstall windows. (bleh)
2) Edit boot.ini on your windows partition to correctly specify the new location for your windows partition.
3) Switch the drives back to the original configuration so windows is no longer confused. Then edit your /etc/fstab and grub.conf to reflect this, and then reinstall grub.
4) use the map command in grub to trick windows into thinking the master is the slave and the slave is the master. You have 2 lines, something like map (hd0, hd1) map (hd1, hd0) (Not quite sure on the format, you might have to verify that.

Rukie · Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 6:31 pm Post subject:

Heh, the problem wasn't at all what I had thought it was...

It works when I recconnect the windows drive directly to the motherboard... but not when connected to the PCI card... turns out windows didn't have any drivers installed for the pci card that gives me 2 more cable slots...

I feel kinda embarrased now :oops:

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