Michael Sullivan wrote: > 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 >> >> > 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...
That's what I was thinking too. Maybe grub's "map" command can circumvent this though. Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
