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nebuchadenzzar

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Registered: 2005-06-27

Posts: 6

grub linux/winxp/winxp/vista problems

hey...

at first sorry for my bad english.

i have problems with my grub configuration for booting windows.

my partions are:
hda1 => win xp
hda5 => linux
sda5 => win xp
sda8 => vista

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/hda5 ro vga=773 
initrd /boot/kernel26.img

# (1) Windoofs
title Windoofs
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
makeactive

# (2) Windoofs xp
title windows xp
rootnoverify (hd1,4)
chainloader +1
makeactive

# (3) Vista
title Vista
rootnoverify (hd1,7)
makeactive
chainloader +1

linux is booting well, and before i installed vista "# (1) Windoofs",too. but since the installing of vista gurb don't boot any version from windows.
it always say :error 23 ...

what did i do wrong?

thanks for our help.

Last edited by nebuchadenzzar (2007-03-25 16:39:04)

fishonadish

Member

Registered: 2006-11-04

Posts: 125

Re: grub linux/winxp/winxp/vista problems

Windows expects to be in the first drive, so to get windows working on hd1 you need to swap the order of the drives with 'map'
e.g.

#Windows
root (hd1, 7)
map (hd1) (hd0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
makeactive
chainloader +1

Also, does the order of the makeactive/chainloader lines matter?  They're not consistent in your menu.lst anyway,