Re: Linux screwed my XP bootup
- From: Robert Latest <boblatest@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 6 Nov 2005 21:46:02 GMT
On 2005-11-05, Mac <foo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> There is a way to set up a working Windows configuration with the linux
> disk un-attached.
>
> If you start with this, and add the linux disk, it no longer works
> (meaning that neither OS boots)? Very strange.
Not at all strange. There is probably a master/slave mixup as
others have suggested. When that's cleared up, proceed as
follows:
Make sure your Linux disk is the master on the first bus in your
system (making this the first disk the BIOS will try to boot
from).
Then, boot into Linux and configure the boot loader (nowadays
this will mostly be GRUB) to include another menu entry pointing
at the Windows disk. In my GRUB menu.lst file, the Win2k entry
looks like this:
---
title Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
root (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1
---
I must confess that I have no idea what the lines other than
"root" and "title" mean. In your setup, you would change the
root entry to (hd1,0) because WinXP is on the second disk in
your system.
Voila.
robert
PS: I haven't really figured out the magic of boot loaders. I'm
just happy it works.
.
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