no boot XP after FC4 (REPHRASING OF THE QUESTION)]

[Bob McClure Jr]

On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 10:33:54PM -0500, John Wirt wrote:
> 
> Refugio,
> 
> As Allan Grant has evidently not responded to your reply with the 
> subject above, could you please add the next steps to your solution? 
> Like Alan, I would like to add Linux to a boot manager other than Grub 
> but my situation is somewhat different.
> 
> The boot manager I am using is Boot-it by Terrabyte Unlimited
> (http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/). There are instructions on that
> website for reconfiguring Linux so that it can be added to the boot
> menu. The basic issue is moving Grub to the root directory of the Linux
> partition, as you outline is your instructions to Alan Grant.
> 
> However, I also have two SCSI drives in my machine and am in the process 
> swapping the position of one for the other. My machine originally came 
> with Linux (RedHat Enterprise Workstation v.3) was on the first SCSI 
> disk and the second one had a Linux partition on it. So Linux took up 
> the whole first disk. A month ago, I swapped the position of the first 
> and second drive and installed Windows XP on the new first drive.
> 
> I erased the Linux partition on the new first drive and installed a 
> primary partition for XP (NTFS), an extended partition with two NTFS 
> volume in it, and Boot-it, which requires a small "EMBR" partition (FAT) 
> partition. XP works fine. Now I want to add Linux, which is (now) on the 
> 2nd SCSI disk, to Boot-it as a boot item. But the Linux on that disk is 
> configured to run on a disk that is HD0.
> 
> I have tried to (and can) boot my machine to LINUX RESCUE using the 
> first CD. The next step, I presume, is that I should follow your 
> instructions below to move Grub on the second disk to the root directory 
> of the Linux partition on that second drive.

Well, actually, you're going to install it on the boot sector of your
drive, not the root directory.

> Then I must need to 
> reconfigure Grub (and or Linux) somehow to tell them that Linux is on 
> HD1 and in what partitions.
> 
> What I am not sure about is:
> 
>  a. What is the name of Linux drive likely to be in this new
> configuration?  /dev/sda  or /dev/sdb?
> 
>     As I said above, the new drive 0 with XP on it has one primary NTFS 
> partition and an extended partition with 2 volumes on it.

I might guess /dev/sdb, but I'm not all that smart about SCSI.  Boot
to rescue mode, let it mount your system, and then run

  mount

That should show you the device names.

>  b. What is the best way to find out which partition on the Linux drive 
> (the second drive) is the swap partition and which is the Linux 
> partition? Will fdisk /dev/shX show me this?

Well, yes, but this would be better:

  fdisk -l

That's 'ell' as in list.

>  c. Once I know this, I should be able to use the,
> 
>        grub-install /sdXY
> 
> command to move Grub to the root partition.

Yes, but you may also need to add the device to
/boot/grub/device.map.

>  d. Then, what else do I need to do to reconfigure Grub and/or Linux so 
> that they know that Linux is now on HD1 instead of HD0? I have no clue 
> about this.

In /etc/fstab, you need to change any references to /dev/sda to
/dev/sdb or whatever your second drive became.

In /boot/grub/grub.conf, you need to change any references to hd0,x to
hd1,x (I think).

> Having done all of this, I would shut down my machine, remove the Linux 
> CD#1 from my CD drive, and my reboot my machine to Boot-It. The Linux 
> and swap partitions should then show up in Boot-it. If they do, then I 
> know how to add Linux to the boot items.
> 
> Boot-it's instructions for installing Linux on the boot menu are in
> items #1 and #2 here
> 
>   (http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/kb/category.php?id=20).
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> John Wirt

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
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