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Re: Can't boot NT5
From: |
Loris Caren |
Subject: |
Re: Can't boot NT5 |
Date: |
Thu, 12 Oct 2000 22:24:09 +0100 |
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Jochen Hoenicke wrote:
> Hello Loris,
>
> On Oct 12, Loris Caren wrote:
> > I'm using grub-0.5.96 on an Asus P2L97S to perform muti-booting and it
> > mostly
> > works very well indeed (getting round a >1024 problem I was having with
> > Lilo), so first, a word of thanks - it's a nice product. However, I can't
> > get
> > it to boot a copy of Win2000 proffesional which I've installed on an HPFS
> > partition. Is it the latter which is the root of my problem? Have you had
> > reports of success by anybody else (I can report that WinME boots OK).
> >
> > I've got two drives installed, an IDE containing a tiny linux partition for
> > holding a kernel and a WinME partition. The second disk is a 9M SCSI disk
> > which says it's got 64h, 32sect, 8748 cyl. The NT5 is partition 3.
>
> DOS/Windows and probably also Windows NT/2000 can't boot themself from
> the second hard drive. The solution is to virtually swap the hard
> drives via the "map" command. See the grub tutorial under
> Booting / OS-specific notes / DOS/Windows
Thanks for the excellent suggestion, I should have RTFM. Alas however
invoking map has made no difference although you are clearly right since if I
remove the IDE drive I can get grub to boot the NT. Maybe I'm not
understanding the map command (and this time I think I have RTFM). It doesn't
seem to do anything. Shouldn't I expect to have to do a rootnoverify
(hd0,2) after doing the map (hd0) (hd1) ; map (hd1) (hd0) - in other words
shouldn't grub 'see' the effect of the drive swapping?