[vox-tech] grub questions

[Peter Jay Salzman]

On Mon 09 Aug 04,  5:11 PM, Foo Lim <foo at joshuatree.cs.ucdavis.edu> said:
> On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> 
> > [...]
> >    title		Windows NT/2000/XP
> >    root		(hd1,0)
> >    savedefault
> >    makeactive
> >    chainloader	+1
> > 
> > I'd like to put "boot" at the end of the Win2k stanza, but when I type
> > "boot" at the grub prompt, it tells me that the kernel needs to load
> > before booting (huh?).
> 
> Hi Peter,
> 
> Try something like this:
> 
> title Win2K
> root (hd0,0)
> makeactive
> chainloader +1
> # For loading DOS
> chainload /bootsect.dos
> 
> You might be missing the last line.
> 
> HTH,
> FL
 
I tried installing lilo (it looks like lilo and grub can coexist,
although only one is "active" at a time).  I still can't boot Win2k from
lilo.

I can mount the windows partitions, and all looks well.  It just won't
boot.  Sigh.  This is going to take some thought...  :(

Pete

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