[Gllug] grub and dual booting with windoze xp

[Sean Burlington]

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> 
> I'm unable to boot with GRUB. I just get the "GRUB" prompt and the system 
> hangs. Restoring the MBR with fixmbr gives me windoze xp back, and booting 
> linux from the installation CD gets me that back.
> 
> My menu.lst file is shown below. Note that with the gfxmenu line commented 
> out, GRUB gets past the prompt only to fail with either error 21 or 23 (I 
> can't remember which, but 23 is probably right).
> 
> I've tried various methods such as installing the bootloader on the root 
> partition, copying it to a floppy with dd, putting it on the C partition 
> and editing boot.ini appropriately. This still gives me the "GRUB" prompt 
> and a hanging system.
> 
> What have I missed? /boot isn't the first partition on the linux drive, and 
> C isn't the first partition on the windoze drive. Is there a 1024 cylinder
> limit as there is with LILO? From what I've read GRUB can cope with NTFS.
> 
> My menu.lst file:
> 


I had a similar problem a while ago with an emachine system

neither Lilo nor Grub would boot from the primary hard drive

I did manage to get the system to boot from the seconday hard drive via 
some bios twiddling and this worked for linux but not for windows.

I /think/ I tried switching the disk around - but ended up installing 
grub on a floppy and booting from that !


I googled for ages and couldn't really find anything but came to the 
conclusion that I hadn't done anything wrong... I just figured that the 
emachine was wierd ;)

anyway running grub from floppy is slow but much faster than a full 
floppy boot as the kernel is still on the hard drive


-- 

Sean

(ready to be embarresed if there is a much better solution to this :)




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