scantu

Hello everyone, I have successfully installed FC3 and grub on a new slave drive that I installed. My compaq presario PC came with WinXP which is on the Master Drive. After changing the boot order in my Bios so as boot up from the slave drive, grub comes up with no problmes and I can choose to go to FC3 Linux with no problem. However, when I choose to go to WinXP (which it does by default), I get the following error(?) and then my PC just freezes as it tries to boot Windows: rootnoverify (hd1, 1) chainloader +1 When I go back and go to my bios to change the boot order, I have no problem getting back into Windows XP with no problem. In trying to solve this problem, I tried the following mod in grub.config file: rootnoverify (hd1, 0) map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) chainloader +1 After I made this mod, the next time I tried booting to WinXP, Compaq went to 'system recovery'. Which I stopped. I am at a lost currently - any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks. scantu

Well, I decided to reinstall FC3 on my slave drive along with grub. After having new problems (it was probably something dumb that I did), I went ahead and installed grub on the master (hda) drive and the rest of FC3 on the slave (hdb) drive. Once again, FC3 worked just fine when booting it from grub and again when trying to boot Windows XP from grub, my compaq PC went to recovery mode which I quit. To make a long story short, I went into my grub.conf file and explicitely changed from where windows was trying to boot from (change it from hda partiton 1 (system recovery) to partition 2 (windows). Below is the change. Changed: rootnoverify (hd0,0) # hd0 being master and 0 partition 1 chainloader +1 To: rootnoverify (hd0,1) # hd0 being master and 1 partiton 2 chainloader +1 The first time I tried to boot to windows from grub, I got some windows warning - it still allowed to start window normally with no problem. After that, everytime I go to windows, I get no more nasty messages - it just goes straight through with no problem along with FC3. Anyhow, thanks for your help -

Yes, Grub is installed on the slave drive. My compaq does indeed have two partitons on the master drive (C, and D). D is the 'system recovery' partition that compaq uses. My syntax is OK, I have no spaces between (hd1,0). The grub.config file was originally set up as 'rootonoverify (hd1,1)' - this is when my PC just hangs with: rootnoverify (hd1, 1) chainloader +1 when trying to boot to Windows. You are right the issue here is most certainily with compaq's hidden D partition (system recovery). If I could somehow disable it, I might get it to work OK. Even though I have both Windows and FC3 working just fine, I would really much like to use grub as an interface to choose which drive to boot from instead of having to get into my bios everytime I want to change the hard drive priority. Any other suggestions would be welcomed.