Re: [arch-general] how to boot Windows and Arch...

2009-10-31 Thread Magnus Therning
On 31/10/09 01:41, Preston C. wrote: > On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: >> You have to try. I think it is, but Magnus claims that this is old news. >> Just pick a configuration that works and stick with it. >> >> > Well I tried it and it worked, :-). I did change the /root ex

Re: [arch-general] how to boot Windows and Arch...

2009-10-30 Thread Preston C.
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > You have to try. I think it is, but Magnus claims that this is old news. > Just pick a configuration that works and stick with it. > > Well I tried it and it worked, :-). I did change the /root ext. 4 partition in Grub from (hd1,0) to (hd0,0

Re: [arch-general] how to boot Windows and Arch...

2009-10-30 Thread Thomas Bächler
Preston C. schrieb: Swapping the boot device order in BIOS will do the same. Well that is good news. Now I do not have to open the computer! Magnus I have done some research, your way is right, although, it seems I should do something more like this. With the "map" parameter: # (2) Windows XP

Re: [arch-general] how to boot Windows and Arch...

2009-10-30 Thread Preston C.
> Swapping the boot device order in BIOS will do the same. Well that is good news. Now I do not have to open the computer! Magnus I have done some research, your way is right, although, it seems I should do something more like this. With the "map" parameter: # (2) Windows XP title Windows XP map

Re: [arch-general] how to boot Windows and Arch...

2009-10-30 Thread Magnus Therning
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Preston C. schrieb: >> >> Thank you Magnus, very much. Windows is on the first SATA port, >> though. Any difference in the configuration of Grub since Windows is >> on the first SATA port? > > That's difficult indeed. Grub will be installed

Re: [arch-general] how to boot Windows and Arch...

2009-10-30 Thread Thomas Bächler
Preston C. schrieb: On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 4:26 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: That's difficult indeed. Grub will be installed in the MBR of the first disk and as far as I know will need its files to be on the same disk - in a FAT32, ext2/3/4, xfs, jfs, ... (not NTFS) partition. Having Arch on the

Re: [arch-general] how to boot Windows and Arch...

2009-10-30 Thread Preston C.
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 4:26 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > That's difficult indeed. Grub will be installed in the MBR of the first disk > and as far as I know will need its files to be on the same disk - in a > FAT32, ext2/3/4, xfs, jfs, ... (not NTFS) partition. > > Having Arch on the first BIOS di

Re: [arch-general] how to boot Windows and Arch...

2009-10-30 Thread Thomas Bächler
Preston C. schrieb: Thank you Magnus, very much. Windows is on the first SATA port, though. Any difference in the configuration of Grub since Windows is on the first SATA port? That's difficult indeed. Grub will be installed in the MBR of the first disk and as far as I know will need its files

Re: [arch-general] how to boot Windows and Arch...

2009-10-30 Thread Preston C.
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 3:21 AM, Magnus Therning wrote: > On 30/10/09 07:00, Preston C. wrote: >> >> Hi, I have two hard disks installed in my computer. One for Windows >> and the other for Arch Linux. I have tried to install Arch several >> times but get a message write after I click "Arch Linux"

Re: [arch-general] how to boot Windows and Arch...

2009-10-30 Thread Magnus Therning
On 30/10/09 07:00, Preston C. wrote: Hi, I have two hard disks installed in my computer. One for Windows and the other for Arch Linux. I have tried to install Arch several times but get a message write after I click "Arch Linux" from the boot menu- it has something to do with "Error 17". I have

[arch-general] how to boot Windows and Arch...

2009-10-30 Thread Preston C.
Hi, I have two hard disks installed in my computer. One for Windows and the other for Arch Linux. I have tried to install Arch several times but get a message write after I click "Arch Linux" from the boot menu- it has something to do with "Error 17". I have come to see that my Grub configuration