Grubby problem

[Rich Duzenbury]

On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 21:54 -0500, David M. Carney wrote:

> Unfortunately, Windows always wants to be the first OS on the first
> drive. But there is a way to fool Windows into thinking it IS the
> first OS on the first drive, even though it is not, as in your case.
> 
> I have a little more simple setup, but perhaps you could learn from it.
> 
> I have Ubuntu linux on the first (80 gig) drive. It possess the whole drive.
> 
> Win XP Pro is on the second drive (20 gig). It possess that whole drive.
> 
> My drives are not scsi or STAT, but I believe my grub setup will steer
> you in the right direction.
> 
> The Ubuntu is straight forward for setting up Linux on a hard drive.
> So I won't list it here.
> 
> Here is the Windows part for the second drive:
> 
> title		Windows XP
> root		(hd1,0)
> rootnoverify (hd1,0)
> map (hd0) (hd1)
> map (hd1) (hd0)
> chainloader +1
> 
> The first map line fools my system into thinking that the first drive
> is actually the second drive.
> 
> The second map line fools my system into thinking the second drive is
> actually the first drive.
> 
> Now, Windows is fooled into thinking it is on the first drive and it
> will boot and run as normal.

David, thanks very much for the insight. I think the drive swapping was
a main part of the problem.  

Here is what I have now that seems to function:

title           Windows NT/2000/XP
map (hd1) (hd0)
rootnoverify    (hd1,0)
chainloader     +1
savedefault
makeactive

Grub now activates the win2000 bootloader, and I can select either
win2000 or win98 from there.  The win2000 boot works great.  The win98
locks up after a few seconds. The loss of the win98 is no big deal, I
really am happy enough with just the win2000.  The unusable win98 is
wasting some 5 or 10gb of space, but thats of no serious consequence at
this time.

Thanks for your help.

--
Regards,
Rich

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