Installing on a Slave drive, grub issues

[Jan Kokoska]

On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 20:47 -0700, Kelly Mann wrote:
> Hey,
> I installed ubuntu on my slave drive, (winXP on the primary). I
> install grub on hd1, and when i reboot i get:
> root (hd1,0) fs unknown
> error 17: unable to mount partition
> 
> Yet if I instal grub in the mbr of the primary, it works. (yet this is
> not what i want to do because i want to use the nt loader.)
> 
> if i type root (hd0,0) it tells me that it fs type is ext2fs bu that
> should be ntfs. I also attempted to use bootpart, and that gave me an
> invalid system disk error.

A bit of mess. GRUB is superior to ntloader, write GRUB to your hd0 MBR
and boot WXP through "chainloader +1" (passing control to nt bootloader
on the windows partition). If GRUB says something is ext2, it is ext2
and you might have created another parition there by mistake?

Regards,
Jan