Dual Boot, Grub, FC3-WinXpSP2, 2 drives. No go.

[Nat Gross]

Robert Locke wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 15:18 -0500, Nat Gross wrote:
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>>>On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 14:06 -0500, Nat Gross wrote:
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>>>>>On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 13:18 -0500, Nat Gross wrote:
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>>>I guess you need to define which "partition" contains the "WINDOWS"
>>>directory.  That is the one that you would be "booting" from.  So is
>>>that on hdb1 or hdb5.....
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>>>But I must admit that my Windows boot process knowledge is getting
>>>mighty rusty, now that I use VMWare to run it.
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>>>As I recall, the Windows bootloader is mighty cheesy....  It simply
>>>pointed to the first sector of the "active" partition....  I wonder if
>>>playing with hide and unhide in grub might help.  Can you hide a whole
>>>drive or just a partition, haven't had to do one myself?  But that way
>>>you might be able to allow Windows to think it is the only drive again
>>>which is perhaps what it is expecting?  Windows may be trying to
>>>interpret the first drive's partition table and getting itself confused
>>>as it tried to boot....
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>>Grub intercepts the boot.
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>Well, that's open for a little interpretation....
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>chainloader is essentially just passing control back to Windows to boot
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Oh.

>The Windows MBR component is what is replaced/intercepted by
>GRUB.  But the chainloader line is execute sector +1 on the rootnoverify
>line.  Generally Windows has historically held the NTLDR executable
>there that then reads the boot.ini file and performs it's boot.....
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One minute. So, the boot.ini might have been on C:?<gasp>
On the other hand, it should not be too hard to write a boot.ini, if I 
recall correctly from my last win crash. But, where should I stick that 
file? Or, maybe I should try to mount the the ntfs partition (via the 
3rd party driver) just to look for boot.ini...
<sigh>
Mr. Gates, I ain't going back to you!!!! (after I'm thru with this.)
-nat

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