Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Dual Boot

2005-05-28 Thread Walter Willis
use in the configuration title=Windows ME rootnoverify (hd0,0) map hd0 hd1 <- makeactive chainloader +1 2005/5/28, AJ Spagnoletti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > My setup prior to having grub put on hda was as follows.. > hda1 = windows partion > hdb1 = linux boot partition >

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Dual Boot

2005-05-28 Thread AJ Spagnoletti
My setup prior to having grub put on hda was as follows.. hda1 = windows partion hdb1 = linux boot partition I had grub installed on hdb1 and planned to boot my computer from that drive. So because in BIOS I was booting from the slave drive grub reads that drive as (hd0,x) I understand completely

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Dual Boot

2005-05-28 Thread Mark Shields
No. Completely going by the gentoo install handbook excerpt you pasted, the grub device/partition referencing is formatted like this: hd,, not hd,. So, hda1 would be hd0,0 NOT hd1,0 . hd1,0 would reference drive 2, partition 1 (/dev/hdb1). On 5/24/05, AJ Spagnoletti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Dual Boot

2005-05-24 Thread Richard Fish
AJ Spagnoletti wrote: >>What ever drive the BIOS reports as the bootable drive may be considered >>drive C: by windows, I think. FWIW you have grub booting Gentoo on the >>first drive (hd0/hda), so why not change the boot order back and install >>grub on hda with an updated grub.conf. >> >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Dual Boot

2005-05-24 Thread AJ Spagnoletti
> What ever drive the BIOS reports as the bootable drive may be considered > drive C: by windows, I think. FWIW you have grub booting Gentoo on the > first drive (hd0/hda), so why not change the boot order back and install > grub on hda with an updated grub.conf. > I was looking at this as another

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Dual Boot

2005-05-24 Thread Craig Duncan
AJ Spagnoletti wrote: >I would like to set up my computer to use dual boot but I have run >into some trouble. The hard drive setup is as follows > >hda1 = windows Me >hdb = linux > >I have grub installed on hdb and would like my computer to boot from >it. I have changed bios to boot from hdb(linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Dual Boot

2005-05-24 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 24 May 2005 19:52:14 -0400 AJ Spagnoletti wrote: > I would like to set up my computer to use dual boot but I have run > into some trouble. The hard drive setup is as follows > > hda1 = windows Me > hdb = linux > > I have grub installed on hdb and would like my computer to boot from > it