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blkdragon
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 Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 5:13 am Post subject: Grub has issues booting XP |
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Hey y'all,
Just got a couple of questions regarding grub...
1. Grub wont boot Windows.
Partition scheme looks like this:
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/dev/hda1: DATA
/dev/hdb1: Windows
/dev/hdb2: Gentoo
/dev/hdb3: Swap
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do i have to change grub options to read something like this?:
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title=Windows
map (hd1) (hd0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
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2. my xterm terminals have got some wierd resolution, what options do i have to pass to grub to make it 1024x768x16? i've already got but that seems to error out, and then i have to choose option 1 or 2 for me to get a highly un-readable font size.
Any help appreciated.
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breaultm
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| Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 5:30 am Post subject: |
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not too sure why your grub windows portion is written like that, but these are the relevant portions of mine.
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title=Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
makeactive
chainloader +1
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so translate that to your setup and we get
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title=Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
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try that, see what happens.
in grub speak your partitions map to:
/dev/hda1: DATA = (hd0,0)
/dev/hdb1: Windows = (hd1,0)
/dev/hdb2: Gentoo = (hd1,1)
/dev/hdb3: Swap = (hd1,2)
grub counts from 0 up.
also, can you compile vesafb-tng into the kernel and specify a resolution? or are you genkernel? |
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blkdragon
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| Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 5:47 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | title=Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1 |
Yeah, thats what my current Grub setup looks like. When i try and boot it, grub hangs, and windows does not boot. That's why i was mucking around with the mapping stuff to see if that would work.
And yes, i will compile vesafb-tng into the kernel. I knew that there was something i had forgotten!
thanks.
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breaultm
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| Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 6:26 am Post subject: |
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| please post your fdisk layout |
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gsoe
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| Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 6:50 am Post subject: |
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Grub itself is not "cheated" by the mapping. You should use: | Code: | title=Windows
map (hd1) (hd0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1 |
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