Issue dual booting with windoz XP

Jonty · Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 1:38 pm Post subject: Issue dual booting with windoz XP

I know, I know, don't run XP, but hey I have to, (forgive me :-)

I installed Gentoo last night from a stage-2 tarball, and emerged the system over night.

I have installed grub as the boot loader. (version .93)

My HD partitions are:

Pete_Keller · Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 2:15 pm Post subject:

Jonty, did windows work after the resize w/ partition magic?

I have a similar setup, and your grub file looks correct.

Pete

Jonty · Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 2:20 pm Post subject: Thanks Pete

Yes it did, although I only used Part. magic to created a extended partition, I created the 3 logical drives using fdisk.......

I installed Grub into the MBR if that's any help.

Jonty

Lews_Therin · l33t Joined: 03 Oct 2003 Posts: 657 Location: Banned

Have you tried using the NT bootloader rather than grub?

D. M. P. inc · Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 3:39 pm Post subject:

this is my grub and i am using xp and gentoo too try this kind of setup

default 0
timeout 10
splashimage=(hd0,6)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title= -=|[ Gentoo ]|=-
root (hd0,5)
kernel (hd0,6)/boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda3

title= -=|[ XP ]|=-
root (hd0,0)
chainloader (hd0,0)+1

fdisk is kinda hard to see use cfdisk to see if ur really pointing ur XP boot to da right part

Jonty · Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2003 11:04 am Post subject: Case closed

Thanks for all your help everyone. I have solved the issue. It turned out that my boot partitiion (hda5, 100mb) was 'corrupted' in some way.

It resulted in partition magic not being able to read the partition table, and I assume XP, thus the crashes.

I included /boot as part of the main /(root) partition, deleted the old boot and it now all boot's lovely.

I suppose I could now try to recreate the boot partition, but then I might just leave it alone ;-)

Jonty