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darut

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Registered: 2004-04-17

Posts: 69

grub - can't force to work from WinXP

I have 2 HD
WinXP on HD0-part1
Archlinux on HD1-part6

I installed GRUB to hd0,5

I have been trying to start Arch from XP bootloader by:
dd if=/dev/discs/disc1/part6 of=linux.lnx bs=512 count=1
copy linux.lnx to C: in XP
setting XP config of bootloader

After reboot I had only label GRUB (it wasn,t  a prompt)

During installation of the GRUB there were errors about stage1.5...(not fatal)
My menu.lst (part of it):
root (hd1,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/discs/disc1/part6 ro

Anybody could help, please?

darut

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Registered: 2004-04-17

Posts: 69

Re: grub - can't force to work from WinXP

There weren't many problems with GRUB mentioned in ArchForum.
Maybe reason lies in that I try to put GRUB in sixth partition (extended) of the second (slave) drive or maybe devfs cause my troubles?
Everything worked fine in my previous distro - RedHat.

lanrat

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From: Poland

Registered: 2003-10-28

Posts: 1,274

Re: grub - can't force to work from WinXP

I don't really know what problem is with your configuration but maybe it will help you if I post my grub config for windows (on /dev/discs/disc1 slave + /dev/discs/disc0/part5 as fat32 for easy exchange of files) and archlinux (/dev/discs/disc0 master):

# general configuration:
timeout   30
default   0
color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue

# boot sections follow
# each is implicitly numbered from 0 in the order of appearance below
#-*

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/discs/disc0/part3 ro

# (1) Windows
title Windows XP
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
root (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

and a fragment of my fstab:

# <file system>         <dir>           <type>          <options>               <dump>  <pass>   
/dev/discs/disc0/part1  /boot           ext3            defaults                0       1
/dev/discs/disc0/part2  swap            swap            defaults                0       0
/dev/discs/disc0/part3  /               reiserfs        defaults                0       0
/dev/discs/disc0/part5  /mnt/windows    vfat            defaults,umask=0022     0       0

As you can see I don't use windows bootloader because windows becames useless more and more for me with everyday with arch :-) At least this config works for me. I'm sure you can change it a bit to work for you if you will give up with windows bootloader. 8)

darut

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Registered: 2004-04-17

Posts: 69

Re: grub - can't force to work from WinXP

Thanks for your answer but I need WinXP now.
I look for somebody who has Grub's bootloader installed on second hd and in highier partition.Interesting is that I used settings I posted in my first letter with RedHat and everything worked fine.

darut

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Registered: 2004-04-17

Posts: 69

Re: grub - can't force to work from WinXP

Finally I installed lilo and Arch boots in my way.