GRUB won't load Windows 95

07-22-2007	#1 (permalink)
weapongod30 Just Joined! Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 7	GRUB won't load Windows 95 Ok, here's the deal. I have two hard drives, a 425 meg (Set as master) and a 1.1 gig (set as slave). I have linux (DSL) installed to my 425 meg drive, and windows on the 1.1 gig. When grub pops up, it gives me the option of either booting dsl or windows. The problem is, when I try and boot windows, all it does is display the windows loader info in the menu.lst file. Then it says Disk I/O Error Replace the disk and try again. I know for a fact that my windows hard drive isn't trashed. It works perfectly (cept for this). the way the menu.lst file is set up is thus: title Windows 95 rootnoverify (hd1,0) map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) chainloader +1 makeactive boot I would greatly appreciate it if someone could help me on this, thanks!

07-22-2007	#2 (permalink)
devils casper Super Moderator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Chandigarh, India Posts: 21,081	Hi and Welcome ! Post the output of fdisk -l command and contents of /boot/grub/device.map file. __________________ It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. - Gertrude Stein New Users: Read This First

07-22-2007	#3 (permalink)
weapongod30 Just Joined! Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 7	The results of fdisk -l are: Disk /dev/hda: 425 mb, 425263104 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 824 cylinders units = cylinders of 1008512=516096 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 388 195520+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 389 825 219744 83 linux Disk /dev/hdb: 1281 mb, 12819182464 bytes 64 heads, 63 sectors/track, 621 cylinders Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev.hdb1 * 1 620 1249888+ 6 FAT16 The contents of device.map are: (hd0) /dev/hda (hd1) /dev/hdb (hd2) /dev/hdc (hd3) /dev/hdd (hd4) /dev/hde (hd5) /dev/hdf

07-22-2007	#4 (permalink)
devils casper Super Moderator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Chandigarh, India Posts: 21,081	Code is correct in menu.lst file and device.map files. Problem is with Windows Disk only. Check its Cable and make sure that its not disables in BIOS. __________________ It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. - Gertrude Stein New Users: Read This First

07-22-2007	#5 (permalink)
weapongod30 Just Joined! Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 7	Thank you VERY MUCH. I dont know how many more hours I would've spent browsing the web for a solution before I found this. And yes, the problem was in the bios. Again, thanks for your help, you were a LIFE SAVER!

07-22-2007	#6 (permalink)
devils casper Super Moderator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Chandigarh, India Posts: 21,081	I am glad to help you. __________________ It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. - Gertrude Stein New Users: Read This First

07-22-2007

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ozar

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Quote:

Originally Posted by weapongod30

Again, thanks for your help, you were a LIFE SAVER!

Yep, devils_casper has definitely become our resident GRUB expert.

Good job, casper!

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07-22-2007	#8 (permalink)
devils casper Super Moderator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Chandigarh, India Posts: 21,081	Thanx for compliment ozar ! I have learned everything from here only. __________________ It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. - Gertrude Stein New Users: Read This First

08-04-2007	#9 (permalink)
muskrat Just Joined! Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Gulf-Coast TX-MX Posts: 23	devils_casper, I have a grub question. Will grub chainload grub? More to the point I installed knoppix on one partion, after having debian on there frist. Debian is the grub MBR instalation, with the /boot/grub/menu.lst. So when I placed knoppix on another partion I instructed it to install grub to the partion, so as not to mess up my MBR. I tried to get it to chainload but was unsuccessfull, I got unable to read file system errors. So I did a work around and am using the install, booting normally with grub, but was still wondering about that chainload issue.

08-04-2007

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Quote:

Originally Posted by muskrat

Will grub chainload grub?

Yes and thats the perfect way to setup multiboot imho.

Code:

title <xxxx>
rootnoverify ( hdx,y)
chainloader + 1

x is Hard Disk number and y is partition number, Count starts from zero.

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Last edited by devils casper; 08-04-2007 at 10:22 PM.. Reason: typo

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