[Novalug] .dmrc question : UPDATE

[Beartooth]

On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Bonnie Dalzell wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Beartooth wrote: B > B > PS : grub is 
> messed up somehow : #1 will no longer boot to XP. <sigh> B >
>
> have you looked at your grub file menu.lst and checked to make 
> sure that it is looking for xp in the correct partition?

 	I see this :

[root at localhost ~]# cat /etc/grub.conf
# 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 (hd0,0)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro 
root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=15
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.22.1-41.fc7)
         root (hd0,0)
         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22.1-41.fc7 ro 
root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
         initrd /initrd-2.6.22.1-41.fc7.img
title Fedora (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)
         root (hd0,0)
         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 ro 
root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
         initrd /initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img
title XP
         rootnoverify (hd1,0)
         chainloader +1
[root at localhost ~]#

 	I don't know where else to look nor what at. Beagle 
doesn't show me anything else but a couple of text files -- which 
I looked at, and they really are just discursive prose about 
other things, not config files, for instance.

> did you modify your partition scheme in anyway?

 	Not that I know of. And qtparted shows 74.53 GB each on 
/dev/sda and /dev/sdb -- and /dev/sdb gets a Windows logo and has 
ntfs filesystem.

> remember grub looks at partitions with a slightly different number
> scheme than linux uses. the first partition on a drive is 0 not
> 1, etc.

 	Well, that rootnoverify and chainloader stuff looks 
familiar from other dual-boot machines I've had in the past; but 
I don't know if it's right.

 	I just remembered that my wife's machine downstairs, with 
a single hard drive, has an old disused XP partition; it looks 
like this to ssh :

[...]
         initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img
title XPPro
         rootnoverify (hd0,0)
         chainloader +1
[root at localhost ~]#

 	On that single-drive machine, Fedora shows (hd1,1) where 
this two-drive one has (hd0,0)

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Double Retiree,
Not Quite Clueless Linux Power User, with precious
(very precious) little idea where up is.