help with grub please
Posts: 171
I used to have Mepis 6.5, windows 98 and windows XP on my hard drive but decided to dump windows 98 & uses its partition to experiment with other linux distros.
It was configured as follows
HDA1 = Windows 98
HDA5 = windows xp
HDA8 = Mepis 6.5
HDA7 = Swap
There are a few other partitions but these are just data storage.
Anyway, I just installed PCLOS 2007 linux to the HDA1 partition that used to have windows 98 on it and everything worked fine and once I added mepis to PCLOS's grub menu.lst I got my Mepis up and running from its menu but when i select windows it just fails to boot it.
before I did this PCLOS install, I used to boot windows from the mepis grub screen and it then brought up another menu with a choice of windows 98 or Windows XP on it.
Ive checked both the menu.lst files in Mepis & PCLOS and they are very similar and I cant see whats wrong. Below is the menu.lst file from the current PCLOS grub loader.
can anyone tell me what i need to change or add?
timeout 10
color black/cyan yellow/cyan
gfxmenu (hd0,0)/usr/share/gfxboot/themes/pclinuxos/boot/message
default 0title MEPIS at hda8, newest kernel
root (hd0,7)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda8 nomce quiet vga=788 resume=/dev/hda7
boottitle PCLOS Linux
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=/dev/hda1 acpi=on splash=silent vga=788
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.imgtitle linux-nonfb
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hda1 acpi=on
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.imgtitle failsafe
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=failsafe root=/dev/hda1 failsafe acpi=on
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.imgtitle Windows at hda1
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1title windows
root (hd1,0)
map (0x81) (0x80)
map (0x80) (0x81)
makeactive
chainloader +1
Grub help
Posts: 162
Hi Roadrash,
Could you not try booting your mepis 6.5 live cd, start mepis assistant and select repair system boot. Reinstall grub in the same place as you did first time.
That may pick up xp boot up again if your lucky otherwise you may have corrupted your xp boot somehow when you got rid of windows 98.
John