Re: Fedora Core 2/Windows XP dual boot: selecting Linux doesn't work

Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> g.devries@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> > Yes, it's odd that the hard disk I installed later should be hdc/hd0.
>
> It's false - hd0 is your boot device. Look in your bios and tell us
> which your boot device is. I suspect you have got them the wrong way
> round.

The boot devices are:
1: floppy drive
2: Maxtor 6L080M0
3: CD-ROM

This Maxtor 6L080M0 is an SCSI Disk Device, under Sata RAID Controller.

The other hard disk is a Maxtor 92040U6, at the secondary IDE Channel.

> If you have your bios
> set to boot from hde, then that is hd0 to grub, I believe. And you WANT
> to boot from hde, don't you? You WANT the windows bootloader tobe
> first.

The 92040U6 is hdc and the 6L080M0 is hde, right? In that case, yes, I
want to boot from hde.

> > But I checked in device.map, and there it says hd0 is hdc, and hd1 is
> > hde. I still tried to change them, but to no avail (as expected).
>
> Try harder. (Don't say "try", tell us what you DID). I would imagine
> that hd0 is hde from your symptoms, so you need to install grub again.
> Editing a file will do nothing.

In grub.conf, I changed every occurrence of "hd0" to "hd1" and vice
versa. But if the mapping is still wrong in device.map, that won't be
of much help, I guess.

If I change device.map to
(hd0) /dev/hde
(hd1) /dev/hdc

and then change grub.conf to
title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358)
root(hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/
initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img
title Other
rootnoverify(hd0,0)
chainloader +1

will that be enough? Will these settings be used the next time I try to
boot?

I'm glad you put up with my stupid questions...

--
Garmt de Vries.

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