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JJ122
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 Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 8:48 pm Post subject: Dual Boot problems |
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OK so I installed gentoo because XP ate itself. But after about 1-2 months I decided to have XP MCE reinstalled (free). I have a 15Gb linux partition a 500MB swap partition and ~45GB for XP.
So after a reinstall of XP i went to reinstall grub with a livecd (i think it worked) I rebooted and grub was there. and went to boot into my gentoo kernel it crashed at "loading local" something about "id "c2" respawning too fast, stopped for 5 minutes" plus grub doesnt give me an option for XP. Does anyone have any idea how to fix it? |
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achimh
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hi there
what does the error message exactly say?
i think the error seems to be somehow related to /dev, i guess you are using udev
have you changed anything concerning that in the kernel?
can you provide your menu.lst of grub?
maybe i can help you out. |
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hoacker
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| Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 5:37 pm Post subject: Re: Dual Boot problems |
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| JJ122 wrote: | | grub doesnt give me an option for XP. |
You have to add it to /boot/grub/menu.lst manually:
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title Microsoft Windows XP
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
makeactive
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Root may be different for your partition layout (it's hd0,2 if XP is installed on the third partition). |
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JJ122
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| Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 9:05 pm Post subject: |
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Ok thanks for the tip I will try adding that to the grub list when I can.
I dont know how to change the kernel since it wont boot into it. One of my 2 kernels (i have 2 because I cant get the newer kernels to use the old HD drivers) will get to the error above, but the other says something about the drive not having the correct file system. I will post both errors when I get the chance to work on it. |
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ofathi
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| Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 12:17 am Post subject: |
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| do you still have your previous grub.conf file? You might have to add your ramdisk line. |
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JJ122
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| Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 4:54 am Post subject: |
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| ?huh? I dont know what you are talking about. do you mean the menu file for grub? if not where would I find it? |
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hoacker
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ofathi
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| Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 1:31 pm Post subject: |
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| JJ122 wrote: | | ?huh? I dont know what you are talking about. do you mean the menu file for grub? if not where would I find it? |
Hi,
menu.lst is most of the time just a symlink to grub.conf - so you can edit any of these two, it remains the same
-> if you have your previous grub.conf you might be able to check whether you used a ramdisk which might be the case |
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