Grub set up

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 09:52 -0400, Richard E. Barmann wrote:
> Yes the 20G drive is the slave. I just pulled the drives and checked
> the set 
> up and jumpers. The 20G (windows) is the slave and the 80G (linux) is 
> definitely the master. I did switch them after installing windows on
> the 20G 
> but  left them as they are now. 80G hda master linux/20G hdb slave
> windows.

Switch them back the way they were just after the windows install.
Windows is unlikely to ever work with it's drives switched. Step 1 is to
get windows working first, so see if it boots. The grub file you gave a
post or two back has the right commands, if that doesn't work try again
but make rootnoverify (hd0,0) instead of (hd1,0).

Then get Linux to boot, this is the easy part as if the existing menu
entry doesn;t work you just edit the line within grub, it even has
command line completion so you can pick the right kernel files. The
structure of the existing file is correct, you may have to tweak the
root entries to get the correct drive.

Remember to write down the settings you use that work as you will have
to edit menu.lst once Linux is running to make these changes permanent.

Last step is to edit /etc/fstab if (and only if) it can't find the
correct partitions to mount - you'll get many errors if this is the case
so you can;t miss it ;-)

alan