[vox-tech] bootloader

Wade Pinkston blata at bugs.osu.edu
Tue May 1 10:48:20 PDT 2007


this is from my /etc/grub.conf (/etc/grub/grub.conf) for your situation 
you would just change hd0,0 to the drive,partition of you winblows install

title winblows
         rootnoverify (hd0,0)
         chainloader +1

Jimbo wrote:
> I have grub as a boot loader.  I have wondoze on one drive and linux w/ 
> grub on the other.  If I want to change drives I have to go into the 
> bios and change hdd priority.  Alex I should have set this up at the 
> installfest but I didn't. Now I wish that I had.   Can I config grub to 
> load up windows even though it is on another hard drive?
> 
> I have a program called drak and it gives boot options but it doesn't 
> seem to point correctly to the other hdd.  The closet option to my sata 
> drive it gives is dev/sda1 .  I believe that I need to set it at dev/sda 
> but unsure.
> 
> Jimbo
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Wade Pinkston

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Windows,a
32 bit graphical interface for a
16 bit patch to an
8 bit operating system internally coded for a
4 bit processor written by a
2 bit company that can't stand
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