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ipgraffiti
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 Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 8:51 pm Post subject: dual boot<solved> |
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im creating a daul boot for a double hard drive ibm laptop. i have never done this before and im doing it for a friend. they have windows on the first hard drive and i have pretty much installed gentoo on the second. i just wondering if my /boot/grub/grub.conf was correct or do i need to install xp on the second hard then install gentoo on the first one?
default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd1,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.15-gentoo-r1
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 rea$initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r1
title=Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
makeactive
chainloader +1
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Thank you for the help
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pilla
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| Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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AFAIK, Windows does not like to be in another place than the first drive, first primary partition.
However, I'm not sure that your Windows should be in (hd0,1). Isn't it in (hd0,0)? See if there are hidden partitions on hd0 (IBM likes those).
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TheRAt
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| Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 9:01 pm Post subject: Re: dual boot |
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| ipgraffiti wrote: | im creating a daul boot for a double hard drive ibm laptop. i have never done this before and im doing it for a friend. they have windows on the first hard drive and i have pretty much installed gentoo on the second. i just wondering if my /boot/grub/grub.conf was correct or do i need to install xp on the second hard then install gentoo on the first one?
default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd1,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.15-gentoo-r1
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 rea$initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r1
title=Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
makeactive
chainloader +1 |
I have a dual boot with a dual HDD alienware lappy here..
only difference I can spot is the drive for windows... I have:
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# Grub boot menu configuration file
#
# Boot automatically after 10 secs.
timeout 10
# By default, boot the first entry.
default 0
# Fallback to the second entry.
fallback 1
# Splash Image
splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/penguins.xpm.gz
# For booting Gentoo 2.6 Sources
title Gentoo Linux
root (hd1,0)
kernel (hd1,0)/kernel root=/dev/hdb4 CONSOLE=/dev/tty1
# Windows XP Pro
title Windows XP Pro
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader (hd0,0)+1 |
I have this machine partitioned as :
/dev/hda1 = Windows XP
/dev/hda2 = fat32 partition for data copying between Win/Linux
/dev/hdb1 = /boot
/dev/hdb2 = swap
/dev/hdb3 = /usr/portage
/dev/hdb4 = /
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ipgraffiti
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| Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 9:29 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you for the help, it dual booted
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Endor
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| Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 5:19 am Post subject: Boot Partition on Dual Boot |
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| Quote: | I have this machine partitioned as :
/dev/hda1 = Windows XP
/dev/hda2 = fat32 partition for data copying between Win/Linux
/dev/hdb1 = /boot
/dev/hdb2 = swap
/dev/hdb3 = /usr/portage
/dev/hdb4 = / |
I don't understand how you're using GRUB if Windows is on /dev/hda1. How do you get the computer to load GRUB from /dev/hdb1 on boot up? Doesn't the Windows loader want to take over on boot? |
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