I installed dsl (complete install, not frugal) to hdb2. During installation I choosed Grub as bootloader. The question "Do you have windows on hda1?" appeared and I answered "yes". Then I had to reboot. But the machine booted windows, there was no dialog where I could choose the os to be booted. What may have gone wrong? Is grub installed on hdb2? How can I check this and how can I move it to hda1?
I hope somebody can help me.
Thanks in advance
MichaelI had to move my Windows drive to the slave position, then install grub and DSL on the (now) hda drive. I'm sure there are other, more elegant, solutions. I suspect that you have grub on the MBR on hdb.i installed dsl on hdb1, the only partition on my only hard drive, and when i restart, it says "grub hard disk error". i tried both full install and frugal install, but the same error both times. any ideas whats wrong?
(i have hdb set to slave in the 2nd ide spot, i have another hadrdrive that i switch to by manyally connecting it and disconecting hdb2 when i need it.)
Quote (larkl @ Feb. 12 2006,10:54)
I had to move my Windows drive to the slave position, then install grub and DSL on the (now) hda drive. I'm sure there are other, more elegant, solutions. I suspect that you have grub on the MBR on hdb.
That's how I solved the problem
1. Start ATerminal 2. sudo su 3. grub 4. find /boot/grub/stage1 the answer was (hd1,1) 5. root (hd1,1) 6. setup (hd0) 7. reboot grub showed 5 versions to start dsl but not windows 8. login and load /boot/grub/menu.lst into an editor the last lines in that file are:
#title Windows #root (hd0,0) #chainloader +1 #makeactive #boot
9. removed the # from each line mentioned above and saved the file
10. reboot grub now shows "Windows" in the menu
I hope that helps
MichaelHi.
My guestion is simple, How i can enable dma before grub tries to mount root at start? I need it because i have SiS hd controller and dsl cant find/mount my partitions/hd without dma acceleration, and i have normal hd install and it gives Kernel panic when trying to start without dma. Error message: Kernel panic VFS: Cant mount root on 03:01. or something like that.