Dual boot with Win2k

[goodwyne]

I hope I'm in the right forum for this question.

I have a new linux box that I'm learning on but I needed to have Windows on the same box because I don't have two monitors. So, I pulled the hard drive out of my Windows box and installed it in the Linux box as a slave. How do I get the boot loader to recognize it as a bootable drive? Currently the only way I can boot to Windows is to unplug the Linux drive. I tried editing the GRUB file and I got Windows as a choice but it doesn't work. What do I need to add to the GRUB file?

Thanks,

Ron

[babbing]

The issue here is that windows may not think it is the master drive, ie hda1. though this isn't too much of an issue, we would have to use mapping to trick windows into thinking it is in hda1. anyways, lets see your grub.conf file and we can go from there

-Babbing 8)

[goodwyne]

grub.conf is listed below:

# 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 (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda3
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=20
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-18.7.xsmp)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-18.7.xsmp ro root=/dev/hda3
initrd /initrd-2.4.18-18.7.xsmp.img
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-18.7.xdebug)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-18.7.xdebug ro root=/dev/hda3
initrd /initrd-2.4.18-18.7.xdebug.img
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-18.7.x)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-18.7.x ro root=/dev/hda3
initrd /initrd-2.4.18-18.7.x.img
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-3)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 ro root=/dev/hda3
initrd /initrd-2.4.18-3.img
title Windows 2000
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1

The last three lines are what I added. I got that from the Red Hat Linux 7.3 Bible but it is either incorrect or incomplete.

[goodwyne]

by the way, I've also had it as (hd 0,1) which is actually the way it is installed.

[JimH]

Try this and see if it works...

title Windows 2000
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1

Jim H

[goodwyne]

Mapping the drives is what it took.

[JimH]

Coooooool! 8) Never used the "map" option in grub before. At least I know it works now.

Jim H

[trommaster]

heh

[babbing]

lol, looks like you got taken care of in a hurry, i was just coming through again and your all mapped and everything, pretty good if you ask me 8)

-Babbing