Dual booting w/ two disks
gabriel
normal1.lists at gmail.com
Mon Jan 24 23:50:00 PST 2005
I reinstalled windows on the second disk, ran fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0
device then ran grub-install device. After that I configured grub as
such:
<config:menu.lst>
color black/cyan yellow/cyan
default 0
fallback 1
# For booting FreeBSD
title FreeBSD - Unix
root (hd0,a)
kernel /boot/loader
# For booting Windows NT or Windows95
title Windows XP
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1
makeactive
</config>
And voila!
Cheers!!
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:09:26 -0800, gabriel <normal1.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay cool, I'll try those when I get home. I think the main issue with
> me is just finding the actual partition on the second disk to boot
> windows because I dont know which is it.
>
> Thanks!
>
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 21:01:39 +0100, FreeBsdBeni <freebsdbeni at spymac.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 01:27:45 -0800, gabriel <normal1.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > I'm trying to dual boot FreeBSD and Windows XP with two different
> > > > disks, I have manged to get FreeBSD running and installed the boot
> > > > manager and grub on it.
> > > >
> > > > When I boot into windows, I get some sort of boot loader error and it
> > > > halts.
> > > >
> > > > Here's my menu.lst:
> >
> > I have Grub booting just from 1 disk, not 2, but with 4 different partitions.
> > Here's my menu.lst as installed by Suse 9.2. I just moved the FreeBSD lines up
> > to the first place ;-). The lines to boot FreeBSD from the Linux Grub version
> > I found with a "info grub" under Suse. There is a chapter on booting other
> > OS'es. But it boots Windows XP, FreeBSD and Suse without any problem here.
> >
> > color white/blue black/light-gray
> > default 0
> > timeout 8
> > gfxmenu (hd0,2)/boot/message
> >
> > ###Added by Beni ###
> > title FreeBSD
> > root (hd0,a)
> > kernel /boot/loader
> > boot
> >
> > ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
> > title SUSE LINUX 9.2
> > kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 vga=0x31a selinux=0
> > splash=verbose resume=/dev/hda6 desktop elevator=as showopts
> > initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd
> >
> > ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows###
> > title Windows XP
> > root (hd0,0)
> > chainloader +1
> >
> > ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy###
> > title Diskette
> > root (fd0)
> > chainloader +1
> >
> > ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
> > title Failsafe -- SUSE LINUX 9.2
> > kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 showopts ide=nodma apm=off
> > acpi=off vga=normal noresume selinux=0 barrier=off nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 3
> > initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd
> >
> > --
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