[ltp] GRUB loader on Thinkpad

[Marius Treitz]

Hey Glenn,
   
    As far as I know you will have to do rootnoverify instead of plain 
root. It should be something like

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title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
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Greetings



Glenn-KPU wrote:

>I'm having difficulty using GRUB to boot a WinXP partition on my Thinkpad
>T30.
>I've been using Grub to boot a similar configuration that I've been
>running on this laptop since SuSE 7.x the only difference being that the
>WinOS was Windows 2000, and not XP. The CDROM that I am installing XP from
>came with the Thinkpad and is an IBM packaging of the OS. Basically the
>configuration is (1) swap partition, (1) partition for linux, (1) for
>the Windows configuration and (1) shared partition that I store files
>on. Fstab file is listed below. The error message that I'm getting from
>GRUB is:
>
>        root (hd0,0)
>        	Filesystem type is fat, partition type 0xc
>        chainloader +1
>
>The GRUB config file is also listed below. I'm currently using SuSE 9.2.
>
>Any ideas? The Windows partition is the first on the disk, so that
>shouldn't be a problem.
>
>Is it possible that the IBM WinXP installation disk is installing a
>recovery partition on the HD that is not showing up on the FSTAB and is
>skewing my mapping?
>
>Thanks in advance for wisdom, advice and relevant insights.
>
>Glenn
>
>
>
>
>
>Fstab is: (with /dev/hda1 the WindowsXP boot target)
>
>/dev/hda3    /    reiserfs   acl,user_xattr   1 1
>/dev/hda1    /windows/C      vfat
>users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=utf8 0 0
>
>/dev/hda4   /windows/D       vfat       defaults    0 0
>/dev/hda2   swap             swap       pri=42      0 0
>devpts     /dev/pts          devpts     mode=0620,gid=5   0 0
>proc      /proc              proc       defaults          0 0
>usbfs     /proc/bus/usb      usbfs      noauto            0 0
>sysfs     /sys               sysfs      noauto            0 0
>/dev/dvd  /media/dvd         subfs
>fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
>
>
>
>The GRUB file is:
>
>color white/blue black/light-gray
>default 0
>timeout 8
>gfxmenu (hd0,2)/boot/message
>
>###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
>title SUSE LINUX 9.2
>    kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 vga=0x317 selinux=0
>splash=verbose resume=/dev/hda2 showopts desktop elevator=as
>    initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd
>
>###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name:
>windows###
>title Windows
>    root (hd0,0)
>    chainloader +1
>
>###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name:
>failsafe###
>title Failsafe -- SUSE LINUX 9.2
>    kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 showopts ide=nodma
>apm=off acpi=off vga=normal noresume selinux=0 barrier=off nosmp noapic
>maxcpus=0  3
>    initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd
>
>
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