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Re: OT: Linus or annother Linus?
de tim 04/26/2006 11:17
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:17:31 -0400, Mark Warner wrote:
> tim wrote:
>>
>> Not anything that has to do with this question, but you look like
>> someone who may know something :)
>
> Fooled you.
:)
>> I installed Mepis on the weekend, onto a spare ata 40 gig hd I had
>> laying around. When asked where to install grub, I chose my sata 250
>> gig so that I could also boot XP. Yowza, grub took out mbr/boot
>> record, and I had to do a repair of XP to get back in to it.
>>
>> Grub is now on the ata 40 gig, but I can't for the life of me get it
>> to let me boot up XP, even though it's listed in the menu. I'm
>> getting tired of switching boot order in the bios to use either XP or
>> Mepis.
>>
>> Any idea what I need to edit to get it to work?
>
> Just so I understand correctly... the GRUB bootloader that came up did
> *not* list Windows as an option? >Yes, MEPIS would be the default, but
> you should have had the option to arrow down to Windows and boot to it.
No. Grub did have my XP listed as a boot option. Mepis was default,Mepis
Failsafe(?) second, Windows, and another Windows were third and fourth. No
idea why Windows was listed twice.
> Boot to the Live CD, login as "root"; click Install Me; chose to
> reinstall GRUB; point it to the MBR on your primary drive (hda), and
> tell it which is your Linux boot/root partition (presumeably hdb1, the
> first partition on the secondary drive).
I'm loath to do that again. My first installation of GRUB I chose sda1 as
primary, which is the SATA 250 gig and my Windows drive, and had GRUB
load from there. hda1 which is the linux drive, is the
secondary. My choice there put me into an endless loop from post to black
screen to reboot. Which left me to rebuild the boot record/mbr so that I
could get back into Windows. Which allowed me to reinstall Mepis again and
try to make a better choice with GRUB.
GRUB is now on hda1. It sees sda1, and has Windows (twice) listed.
However, I still cannot boot Windows using GRUB. I got a couple of
different GRUB error messages. One was a bios error message, and the other
not a really helpful one.
>You can edit the bootloader in the /boot/grub/menu.lst file with Kwrite
> (as root):
>
> su kwrite /boot/grub/menu.lst
> Each section or "stanza" contains the boot information for each OS that
> GRUB detected when installed. MEPIS will be at the top of the list. If
> you want Windows to be the default, you can move it to the top of the
> list with a simple cut/paste. You can also change the timeout setting (#
> of seconds before the default OS is booted) in this file.
I managed to find that, and some information out there on the www about
editing menu.lst. It seems that my editing has now rendered my Windows
drive non functional again. Or else Grub just wants to be in control. I
can't boot to Windows even after setting my bios to boot only from SCSI,
which is the SATA drive. Mepis works really good though :) I may even get
used to Pan.