boatbldr

Thanks for all your help, though it just refuses to work. I've now tried the cable select mode -- no go. Have looked at the jumper specs for Maxtor (there is no jumper in slave mode, it came as cable select, and worked that way for years) and for Western (it was set as slave. The menu.lst file I sent above is still my best guess, with WinXP on (hd0,1) and FC4 on (hd1,0) = /dev/hdb1 I was going to put Knoppix on /dev/hdb3, but haven't gotten round to it. I'm going to get back to work on the linux side and use the Maxtor as a paperweight for now. Can't spent too much more time on it. You are right, it will not boot windows when the Maxtor is the slave. (But is that the same problem -- it only sees the master?) I've just shown my wife how to do her email & word docs in thunderbird & ooffice in FC4. Will try Wine for the one or 2 winApps I occasionally use. Thanks for all your ideas.

Thanks for your ideas. Yes, I did try the grub-install tricks. When I do that, I get error 21 and grub does not fully load. [tt]tt fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 30.7 GB 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3738 cyl units = cyl of 16065 8 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Id System /dev/hda1 1 4 de Dell Utility /dev/hda2 * 5 3738 7 HPFS/NTFS Disk /dev/hdb: 80.0GB, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Device Boot Start End Id System /dev/hdb1 * 1 7649 83 Linux /dev/hdb2 7650 7776 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hdb3 7777 9729 83 Linux [/tt] I hope that makes sense. I see nothing unexpected. Next I'm going to disconnect the Maxtor, set Western to master, and see if it boots to FC4. I'm wondering if I can get that to work, then use the Maxtor as a slave.

Still not working. I switched the jumper on the Maxtor to 7-to-8 to force it to be master, but no luck, the Western is still not recognized. I also tried building a floppy drive to go right into grub. When I type root (hd1,0) grub gives the error 23 again -- cannot find the drive. What puzzles me is that the drive shows up fine in the FC4 installer, and in Knoppix. How can they see it, but grub cannot?

The Western Digital drive is connected to the middle of the ribbon cable and jumpered 3-to-4 (of 10 pins), which Western says is Dual(Slave). The Maxtor is on the end of the cable, jumpered 5-to-6, (of 9 pins, style which looks like is cable-select according to http://www.maxtor.com/en/documentation/installation_guides/ata_installation_guide.pdf Hmm, I'll try switching that to 7-to-8 to make it master. The WD sits in a bay above the Maxtor -- is that what you mean about location?

I have a problem similar to glorioso'a. I am trying to dual boot WinXP on one drive, fedoraCore4 on another. Details: Dell Dimension 8250 came with Pentium 4 2.40 GHz 512 Mb ram Maxtor 45Gb HD I've added an 80 Gb Western HD: WD800JB-00CRA1 I initally had installed FC3 on half of the Maxtor, and that worked fine. Started runing out of space, so I added the WD, which I formated for Linux and migrated my /home directory over there. Lately my daughter complained about the windows side being crowded, so I figured I would give the Maxtor back to WINXP completely. That worked OK, and I installed FC4 on the Western, but am not able to boot to it. I told the FC installer to load grub on /dev/hda (Maxtor), but got a text message : GRUB and nothing more. Used Knoppix Hacks to remove the grub, take it back to windows with install-mbr /dev/hda Now windows boots again, and of course, no Linux. As suggested by bb2222, I tried grub4dos with the menu.lst file attached below after a row of hashes. This boots windows fine, but I get error 23: selected disk does not exist when I try to boot FC4 What else should I report? I put this line in c:\config.sys: install=c:\grub.exe --config-file=(hd0,1)/menu.lst That points to the WinXP system, maybe I'll see if it will work with a pointer to the FC4 menu.lst (I know it's also a grub.conf) file. I also followed this instruction from the grub4dos README: 'Copy GRLDR to the root directory of drive C: of Windows NT/2000/XP and append to C:\BOOT.INI this line: C:\GRLDR="Start GRUB" ' Thanks for any help. boatbldr Here is the menu.lst file: ################################################################ # This is a sample menu.lst file. You should make some changes to it. # Added items for installing GRUB [ which is on your DOS drive C: ] to MBR color black/cyan yellow/cyan timeout 10 default 1 title WinXP chainloader (hd0,1)+1 rootnoverify (hd0) title Fedora 4 kernel (hd1,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1