Problems with Grub

[ricklim at telus.net]

Quoting "David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud)" <dave at davenjudy.org>:

> jtollefson at tj3systems.com wrote:
> 
> >Good day all,
> >I've been trying to load up a second HD with Windows XP on it this
> >morning. I've been reading through the GRUB menu and alot of what I can
> >find on Google but still to no avail. Any suggestions?
> >My current grub.conf
> >title Windows XP
> >        map (hd0) (hd1)
> >        map (hd1) (hd0)
> >        rootnoverify (hd1,0)
> >        chainloader +1
> >        makeactive
> >
> >It looks like it starts to load the OS because the HD light comes on but
> >it just hangs.
> >
> My laptop's (HP Pavilion zv6015) grub.conf:
> 
> # grub.conf generated by anaconda
> #
> # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
> # NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
> #          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
> #          root (hd0,2)
> #          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda6
> #          initrd /initrd-version.img
> #boot=/dev/hda3
> default=0
> timeout=9
> splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> hiddenmenu
> title Fedora Core (2.6.13-1.1526_FC4)
>         root (hd0,2)
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.13-1.1526_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb 
> no_timer_check=0
>         initrd /initrd-2.6.13-1.1526_FC4.img
> title Fedora Core (2.6.12-1.1456_FC4)
>         root (hd0,2)
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1456_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb 
> no_timer_check=0
>         initrd /initrd-2.6.12-1.1456_FC4.img
> title Windoze XP
>         rootnoverify (hd0,0)
>         chainloader +1
> 
> I keep Windoze on it since that seems the only way to get BIOS updates.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave


I suppect that the windows disk will boot up by itself as the first harddisk.
Which means that installing as the second harddisk and asking it to boot there
will not work because it probably has the installation setup as loading the
windows kernel from the first harddisk not the second.