Re: grub won't but XP

[Bernard Fay <xi@videotron.ca>]

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Masood <masoodbeh@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Steve Reilly <sfreilly@roadrunner.com> wrote:

Bernard Fay wrote:

> title           Windows XP
> rootnoverify    (hd2,0)
> chainloader     +1
> makeactive

if im not mistaken the rootnoverify line should be (hd0.1)  not (hd2,0),
at least thats what mine is that works fine.

As Steve pointed out, (hd2,0) seems unusual unless you have 3 hard drives of which the third has Windows XP on it. If you can boot into Lenny try running the following as root to find out where your XP installation is located:

# fdisk -l

Regrads,
Masood

Oh sorry!  I should have told you.  Yes, I have 3 disks: 2 SATA for Linux and 1 EIDE for Windows.  This is why I have (hd2,0).  This is correct, yes?
I use to have ubuntu which use lilo and that was working fine.  Maybe, I should go back to lilo but I rather stay with grub being more powerful.... usually!

Thanks again


strontium:~# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00042142

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          20      160618+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2              21        9729    77987542+  8e  Linux LVM

Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x4bcf667c

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1       60801   488384001   8e  Linux LVM

Disk /dev/hdc: 61.4 GB, 61492838400 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7476 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000cf2ea

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdc1   *           1        7475    60042906    7  HPFS/NTFS