You might already know this and have thought a way around it, but in my experience (plus I've read this in several places) Microsoft Windows will refuse to boot up unless it is taking up /dev/hda1. It wants to be the first OS on the primary hard drive so that it can believe that it is the only one...
On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 17:55 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: > Yee-hah! > > Finally, after about 6 weeks cursing and ripping out > my few remaining hairs, I got gentoo to boot off the > HD w/ NO errors! I'm soooo stoked! I'm using a 1.1Gig > drive as /dev/hda for boot duty, which seems like a > waste, but I'm sure I can find something to put on all > that extra space. > > Only problem: WinXP won't boot. The lines in grub.conf > are: > > title Window NT / Windows 95 boot menu > rootnoverify (hd1,0) > makeactive > chainloader +1 > > I'm sure that's correct: /dev/hdb, first partition. > It mounts OK and all the files are intact, so ... > > Anyways, thanks to all for your support and > encouragement. > > -mw > > > > ____________________________________________________ > Yahoo! Sports > Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football > http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
