Zac Medico wrote: > maxim wexler wrote: > >>Yee-hah! >> >>Finally, after about 6 weeks cursing and ripping out >>my few remaining hairs, I got gentoo to boot off the >>HD w/ NO errors! I'm soooo stoked! I'm using a 1.1Gig >>drive as /dev/hda for boot duty, which seems like a >>waste, but I'm sure I can find something to put on all >>that extra space. >> >>Only problem: WinXP won't boot. The lines in grub.conf >>are: >> >>title Window NT / Windows 95 boot menu >>rootnoverify (hd1,0) >>makeactive >>chainloader +1 >> >>I'm sure that's correct: /dev/hdb, first partition. >>It mounts OK and all the files are intact, so ... >> >>Anyways, thanks to all for your support and >>encouragement. >> >>-mw >> > > > Congrats :-) > > Maybe you can use grub's "map" feature to perform a virtual swap between your > first and second hard drive. > > http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/DOS-Windows.html#DOS%2fWindows > > title Window NT / Windows 95 boot menu > rootnoverify (hd1,0) > makeactive > map (hd0) (hd1) > map (hd1) (hd0) > chainloader +1 >
Also, you have it setup to chainload the boot sector from hdb1. If you want to get the mbr of hdb then use rootnoverify (hd1) instead. Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
