{SOLVED} - Chain Boot

BarefootSoul83 · 2010-03-18 15:46:59

I have a PC I am currently running Windows XP on. I just added a second HDD with a good running install of Arch on it. So....how do I tell the Windows bootloader to look for the second HDD? or do I install an Arch bootloader on the Windows machine?

Last edited by BarefootSoul83 (2010-03-18 20:45:49)

evr · 2010-03-18 16:41:12

replace the windows bootloader with [wiki]grub[/wiki] on the first hard drive to be able to boot both systems.

BarefootSoul83 · 2010-03-18 16:47:34

Even if the Master HDD ONLY has Windows XP on it?

MikeT · 2010-03-18 16:50:51

Yep, or use bootpart or similar.

Mike

evr · 2010-03-18 17:10:10

using grub you just have to specify the correct hard drive/partition (i.e. hd0,1 or hd1,5 - whatever the case may be for your particular setup) in the /boot/grub/menu.lst file.

BarefootSoul83 · 2010-03-18 17:28:52

having trouble installing GRUB...I boot my Arch live cd and it wont let me skip to Install Bootloader (because it wants me to do the other steps in the Arch install process)

In tools I saw "Install Bootloader (or GRUB cant remember) to hd0 (which is the drive I want to get it on....BUT Arch Live crashes when I do this

BarefootSoul83 · 2010-03-18 18:23:23

*bump*

jasonwryan · 2010-03-18 18:47:14

Bumping in under an hour? http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/For … te#Bumping

BarefootSoul83 · 2010-03-18 18:49:25

thank you hall monitor

toad · 2010-03-18 18:57:23

Try this

BarefootSoul83 · 2010-03-18 19:02:26

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having trouble installing GRUB...I boot my Arch live cd and it wont let me skip to Install Bootloader (because it wants me to do the other steps in the Arch install process)

In tools I saw "Install Bootloader (or GRUB cant remember) to hd0 (which is the drive I want to get it on....BUT Arch Live crashes when I do this sad
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thanks fuckstick but I'm not that dumb. If you read my thread, I'm having a PROBLEM doing it the way documentation tells me to!!!

evr · 2010-03-18 19:09:26

chill dude, nobody here knows how smart or not smart you are... he was just trying to help. if it didn't help you, there's no need to insult.and doing so will certainly not help you get a better answer.

oew · 2010-03-18 19:14:25

toad's google search gave me this result:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Reinstalling_GRUB

toad · 2010-03-18 19:27:52

BarefootSoul83 wrote:

thanks fuckstick but I'm not that dumb. If you read my thread, I'm having a PROBLEM doing it the way documentation tells me to!!!

Hehe, fuckstick, that is quite funny. Never been called that before

Well BarefootSoul83, I was only trying to guide you to different documentation. You said the one you are using is not working for you. Hence:

toad wrote:

Try this

And even though that let me google that for you is old - it is quite funny.

Anyway, back to your problem of not being able to install grub. If you cannot make any sense of the google hits, you may want to try this

But before you get really angry, you may want to have a loot at super grub disk in the hope that it helps.

Misfit138 · 2010-03-18 19:30:04

BarefootSoul83 wrote:

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having trouble installing GRUB...I boot my Arch live cd and it wont let me skip to Install Bootloader (because it wants me to do the other steps in the Arch install process)
In tools I saw "Install Bootloader (or GRUB cant remember) to hd0 (which is the drive I want to get it on....BUT Arch Live crashes when I do this sad
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thanks fuckstick but I'm not that dumb. If you read my thread, I'm having a PROBLEM doing it the way documentation tells me to!!!

First of all, calm down, please.
What you may be missing is that there is a simple way of (re)installing GRUB to a disk, from the GRUB shell. You needn't launch the Arch installer at all.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Grub

fsckd · 2010-03-18 19:30:32

BarefootSoul83 wrote:

I have a PC I am currently running Windows XP on. I just added a second HDD with a good running install of Arch on it. So....how do I tell the Windows bootloader to look for the second HDD? or do I install an Arch bootloader on the Windows machine?

Assuming you have grub on your second HDD, instead of chain loading, your BIOS may let you change the boot order of your disks; so that the second hard drive is used instead of the first to boot the system.

BarefootSoul83 · 2010-03-18 19:32:54

Let me clarify then:

I have a PC
It has 2 HDD (not 1 HDD partitioned)
Master = XP
Slave = Arch

I have tried installing the bootloader several times now....
- only on the Windows HDD
- on both

Arch boots fine....

Windows boots into something lie a graphical memtest......

ANY SUGGESTIONS?

fsckd · 2010-03-18 19:39:34

Oh, in that case, are you using grub to boot Windows?

BarefootSoul83 · 2010-03-18 19:41:04

Thanks admin I'll calm down...just a bit frusterated....

I've followed the documentation pretty thoroughly and have installed GRUB in the Windows HDD several times and still cant get it to boot (well, into Windows anyway)

BarefootSoul83 · 2010-03-18 19:42:31

fsckd - YES I have Grub on the Windows HDD now...BUT it wont boot Windows! I get Arch fine....but Windows it sends me to some sort of graphical memtest?!?!

fsckd · 2010-03-18 19:44:40

No, no, you only need to install grub on one HDD. There is a lot of information lacking, but here's what I think you'd want to do. You need to correctly set an entry for Windows in your grub config. So first we need to know what version of grub you are using. Then we can go on from there.

toad · 2010-03-18 19:53:24

It is installed? Good. Which one? 1 or 2? Are your XP stanzas in /boot/grub/menu.lst or /boot/grub/grub.cfg okay? If not sure you could post them.

toad · 2010-03-18 19:54:41

Ah, too late...

BarefootSoul83 · 2010-03-18 20:17:29

GRUB version 0.97

as for the XP stanza....it was pretty basic...I used what was there...uncommented all but the top line.... and made sure my HDD's were respectively listed.... XP = hd 0,0 Linux = hd 1,0

fsckd · 2010-03-18 20:20:16

It might help if you showed it to us. (where it = /boot/grub/menu.lst)

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