Re: Booting Windows from second drive, can't see D: partition

[Thierry Laronde]

On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 07:21:24PM -0600, aco907 wrote:
> Hi,

Hello,

> 
> I've set up Grub on my system to replace Lilo, but I've got a problem.  I
> boot GNU/Linux from hda and Windows 98 from hdb.  On hdb, C: is a large
> primary FAT32 partition (hdb1) that is bootable, and D: is a logical FAT32
> partition where windows is installed to.  When I try to boot Windows from
> Grub, it boots fine, but for some reason DOS can't see the D: partition
> and thus can't start Windows, even though if I run fdisk from that DOS

Do you mean that GRUB chainloads correctly the MS loader, but the following
steps fail ? IIRC, the MS loader is not able to boot from an extended
partition, and waits after a C: partition. Try this the `hide' command (see
the info manual : `info grub').

Cheers,
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Thierry Laronde <address@hidden>
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