I've looked around for a solution to this problem but have not been able to find one. I am experiencing a weird problem when trying to set up a dual boot using GRUB.
My hard Disks are arranged in the following order:
IDE 0: Maxtor 200GB (Win XP)
IDE 1: Fireball 30GB (GRUB, Fedora)
IDE 2: WDC 80GB (Storage, Backup)
I have created a boot disk whose grub.config file which looks like this:
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# 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 (hd1,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hdb1
default=0
timeout=15
splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Fedora Core (2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp.img
title Windows XP Professional
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
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this works just fine, but i dont want to realy on the stability of a floppy! in order to access either system. When i try to boot from the hard disk that contains grub and fedora, something strange happend.
- when i try to boot into xp (hd0), grub hangs
- when i try to boot into fedora (hd1), i get an error
It boots into fedora just fine if i use: root (hd0,0), and then issue the above kernel statement. Another issue is that i can not boot into XP at all using this workaround.
Why is GRUB acting fine when i boot from A:\ and not when i boot from D:\ ? and how can i go about fixing this?
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