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i wasn't exactly sure which section to post this in. but anyway, having a bit of a problem getting grub configured, probably a newb question more than anything
but i installed memtest86 the other day. and when i added the line to my grub menu.lst, basically i cant boot to it, it doesn't recognize the path. the path is good. I'm using the default partition layout, not sure if that has anything to do with it
i also cant boot the windows installation thats on a second drive through grub, I wasn't really concerned with that though until i couldn't get memtest to boot. but i might as well kill 2 in 1 right?
heres the menu.lst if it helps
# Config file for GRUB - The GNU GRand Unified Bootloader
# /boot/grub/menu.lst
# DEVICE NAME CONVERSIONS
#
# Linux Grub
# -------------------------
# /dev/fd0 (fd0)
# /dev/hda (hd0)
# /dev/hdb2 (hd1,1)
# /dev/hda3 (hd0,2)
#
# FRAMEBUFFER RESOLUTION SETTINGS
# +-------------------------------------------------+
# | 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
# ----+--------------------------------------------
# 256 | 0x301=769 0x303=771 0x305=773 0x307=775
# 32K | 0x310=784 0x313=787 0x316=790 0x319=793
# 64K | 0x311=785 0x314=788 0x317=791 0x31A=794
# 16M | 0x312=786 0x315=789 0x318=792 0x31B=795
# +-------------------------------------------------+
# general configuration:
timeout 5
default 0
color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue
# boot sections follow
# each is implicitly numbered from 0 in the order of appearance below
#
# TIP: If you want a 1024x768 framebuffer, add "vga=773" to your kernel line.
#
#-*
# (0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda3 ro
initrd /kernel26.img
# (1) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux Fallback
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda3 ro
initrd /kernel26-fallback.img
# (1) Windows
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd1,1)
#makeactive
chainloader +1
title Memtest86+ [/boot/memtest86+/memtest.bin]
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/memtest86+/memtest.bin
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As far as Windows goes, have you tried changing "rootnoverify (hd1,1)" to "rootnoverify (hd1,0)"?
Can you post the output of 'fdisk -l' too? (that's a lower-case L)
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Windows can boot directly only from the first harddrive, so grub has to fool windows into thinking it IS on the first hdd.
Try this :
# (1) Windows XP Pro
title Windows XP Professional
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
As it looks like you have /boot on a separate partition try this for memtest :
kernel (hd0,0) /memtest86+/memtest.bin
If those don't help post fdisk -l as fukawi suggested.
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ok, well, XP boots now, thanks to lone wolfs suggestion. but memtest still doesnt work
here's the results from fdisk -l
sh-3.2$ fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 400.0 GB, 400088457216 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48641 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000a852e
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 5 40162 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 6 136 1052257+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 137 6511 51207187+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 6512 48641 338409225 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x77ffbf35
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 9498 76292653+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 9499 30401 167903347+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb5 9499 30401 167903316 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sdd: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xbec58bc1
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1 * 1 5826 46795776 7 HPFS/NTFS
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