Win 2000 won't boot

[Dirk Ouellette]

On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 21:05 -0500, David M. Carney wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 16:11:30 -0800, Dirk Ouellette <hapibeli at comcast.net> wrote:
> > [1] I do use "hpijs"
> > [2] It just won't boot. It gives me the splash screen and does nothing
> > else;
> > title           Windows NT/2000/XP
> > root            (hd1,0)
> > savedefault
> > makeactive
> > chainloader     +1
> > 
> > MY Ubuntu drive is ;
> > 
> > title           Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.8.1-3-386
> > root            (hd0,0)
> > kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8.1-3-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet
> > splash
> > initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8.1-3-386
> > savedefault
> > boot
> > 
> > title           Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.8.1-3-386 (recovery mode)
> > root            (hd0,0)
> > kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8.1-3-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro single
> > initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8.1-3-386
> > savedefault
> > boot
> > 
> > title           Memory test
> > root            (hd0,0)
> > kernel          /boot/memtest86+.bin
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> I think I see your problem. Windows is on your second drive, right?
> 
> Some Linux distros don't account for that when they setup grub. I have
> XP on my second drive and Ubuntu missed the right setup, too.
> 
> Windows is selfish and it likes to be the first OS on the first drive.
> So you have to fool it.....
> 
> Here's what you have:
> 
> title           Windows NT/2000/XP
> root            (hd1,0)
> savedefault
> makeactive
> chainloader     +1
> 
> Here's whatr you need to have INSTEAD to make Windows boot: 
> 
> title           Windows NT/2000/XP
> root		(hd1,0)
> rootnoverify (hd1,0)
> map (hd0) (hd1)
> map (hd1) (hd0)
> chainloader +1
> 
> The two map lines fool Windows into thinking it's on the first drive.
> 
> The title can be whatever you want, and you certainly don't want to
> fool with the lines that boot any other OS's.
> 
> Best of luck.
> 
> David

Thanks David. I remember now, that I had to do the same thing with
Fedora from Redhat 8. That should do the trick.
>