On Tuesday 12 July 2005 10:40 am, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Aharon Schkolnik wrote:
> >The first slightly surprising thing is that when I boot from the GRUB
> > diskette to (hd0,0) - which used to boot to Windows 2000, I now get the
> > Microsoft menu offering me either XP PRO or Windows 2000. Does this mean
> > that the Microsoft menu is in the boot sector (hd0,0) as well as the MBR
> > (hd0) ?
>
> No, it's only on the XP boot sector. The MBR XP installed is a standard
> one.
>
> The XP boot loader is somewhere between Lilo and Grub in functionality
> (closer to Lilo). It is controlled by boot.ini file in the root of the
> C: partition. It would be interesting to see what that file says on your
> system.
So, here's what I would like to achieve:
- GRUB in MBR
- grub.conf to have entries for
- Windows 2000 on (hd0,0)
- Windows XP on (hd0,1)
- Linux on (hd3,0)
- when I choose entry 1, or 2, GRUB to boot directly to Windows without any menu
I know how to install GRUB in MBR.
My current entry for Windows 2000 in (hd0,0) gives me the Windows boot loader,
so I assume that if I edit the boot.ini file, I can get GRUB to pass control to
the
Windows boot loader, which in turn will boot directly to Windows 2000 without a
menu.
Now, in order to boot directly from GRUB to Windows XP on (hd0,1), I assume I
need to get another
copy of the XP boot loader into (hd0,1) with an appropiate boot.ini file.
So, here are my questions:
First, here's my boot.ini file:
================================================================
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows 2000 HD" /fastdetect
================================================================
1. Is it true that if I change the
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS line to
default=scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT (without
the /fastdetect)
the Windows loader will default to booting the Windows 2000 system instead
of the XP system ?
2. If I want to get rid of the XP option altogether, I would change the default
as above,
and delete the XP line from the [operating systems] section. Or, is there a
better way ?
3. Do I need to create a Windows boot loader on (hd0,1) ? If so, how ?
The partition is NTFS, so it might be easier to use Windows tools for
this.
4. Do I need to hide (hd0,0) when I try to boot from (hd0,1) ?
TIA !!!!
>
> > If so, how
> >does it boot to the windows 2000 partition on (hd0,0) from the menu ?
>
> I don't know. What does boot.ini say?
>
> >The second surprising thing is that when I boot to (hd0,1) from the
> > diskette (using hide and unhide as noted above), I get the message:
> >
> > NTLDR is missing
>
> Perhaps the partition structure, and their hiding/unhiding, changed?
> Could it be that the XP boot loader is not chain loading Windows 2000,
> but actually loading the 2000 kernel, and therefor removed the 2000 NTLDR?
>
> Again, the boot.ini should give us more insights into what's happening.
>
> >I'm confused.
> >
> >My plan is to create a working GRUB diskette, then a working grub.conf,
> > and then install GRUB on the MBR.
>
> From Linux, dd if=/dev/hda of=/tmp/mbr count=1, and check what the mbr
> is made of. If it's just the standard mbr (as I suspect is the case),
> then you should have no problems with that plan. You can chain load the
> XP boot loader, and then let that decide between 2000 and XP.
>
> Shachar
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