On 6/5/06, Dmitry Mashkovskiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
I've successfully set up Gentoo on the machine with ABIT IS7 motherboard
and two SATA disks (integrated controller on ICH5 chipset, I guess). The
first one is Seagate (Ch2 M. (master?) in BIOS) with WinXP, the second
is Maxtor (Ch3 M. in BIOS) with Gentoo and GRUB in MBR. One problem is
that I cannot boot in Windows while booting with GRUB. Here is my grub.conf:
-------------
default 0
timeout 10
title=Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.12-r6
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/sdb3 irqpoll
-------------
I get only
Booting 'Windows XP'
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
and then machine hangs. So I have to set Seagate drive as a boot device
in BIOS in order to boot Windows. How can I work it out? Should I
install GRUB in the MBR of Windows disk?
Another problem is that sometimes machine freezes or falls in kernel
panic while booting Gentoo (usually on probing ATA devices). I suppose
it may be due to buggy/broken hardware but it would be nice to find some
solution or workaround.
I believe the problem is that Windows expect to be installed on the first disk
and when it is not it fail to start.
Try adding this before the rootnoverify line:
map hd0 hd1
map hd1 hd0
This will make the bios change the order of the disks and Windows will
hopefully be happy again.
/Andreas
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