Stephen McManus step77@f2s.com wrote:
Finally got my install working, Centos didn't recognise my m/board NIC so I had to install another NIC. Now, I've lost the windows install. I need it for my Walkman and Palm. Never, ever got any distro to see the Tunsgsten E. I can see the Win in Grub but it says there's a file missing, insert system disk. Where have I seen that before? Anyway, how do I get into Grub and what do I need to add to make win bootable? Win is on sda2 amd Centos is on sda3 + 5. In the grub folder all it says in the system map is (hd0) /dev/sda. Nothing else. Ta.
Steve.
Working grub.conf for dual boot (CentOS 5 and Windows XP Home):
# 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 (hd0,2) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda6 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title CentOS (2.6.18-53.1.13.el5) root (hd0,2) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb initrd /initrd-2.6.18-53.1.13.el5.img title CentOS (2.6.18-53.1.6.el5) root (hd0,2) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb initrd /initrd-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.img title Windoze rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1
with the following partition table (both Windoze and Linux on the same disk):
[dave@spindle ~]# sudo fdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12161 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 1275 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 1276 1530 2048287+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda3 1531 1563 265072+ 83 Linux /dev/hda4 1564 12161 85128435 5 Extended /dev/hda5 1564 1824 2096451 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hda6 1825 4435 20972826 83 Linux /dev/hda7 4436 12161 62059063+ 83 Linux
Cheers, Dave