Subject: Re: Still no success with boot to NT on hda2 - msg#00049

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Where does grub store the default choice?

Hi, I'm using the save default option with grub and everything works great, it loads the last selected choice. What I am trying to figure out is where this data is stored on disk? It doesn't appear to be stored in the boot sectors on the drive and I couldn't see anything change in /boot/grub - Does anyone know how this data is stored? I had a look over the code but I couldn't grok where the reading/writing was. If anyone can tell me, you'll be saving me about 10% of my development time! Thanks in advance. Best Regards, Jon Anderson http://www.LocustWorld.com PS. What a lovely boot loader grub is!

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Re: Still no success with boot to NT on hda2

Uwe Dippel wrote: > > --- David Balazic <david.balazic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Wintendo is very picky about partitions. > > Try to add a command that hides hda1 ( I don't know the exact syntax, > > maybe "hide (hd0,0)" ) > > Had - of course - tried all of this. > Hide the first partition; check What happened ? Did it help ? > What else ? Delete windows :-) > > Thanks ! > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. > http://search.yahoo.com -- David Balazic -------------- "Be excellent to each other." - Bill S. Preston, Esq., & "Ted" Theodore Logan - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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Still no success with boot to NT on hda2

This is the follow-up to an earlier thread: Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 77545 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 208 104800+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 * 209 3256 1536192 6 FAT16 /dev/hda3 19791 19999 105336 83 Linux /dev/hda4 20000 70000 25200504 5 Extended /dev/hda5 20000 21056 532696+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda6 21057 23081 1020568+ 83 Linux /dev/hda7 23082 35272 6144232+ 83 Linux /dev/hda8 35273 44415 4608040+ 83 Linux /dev/hda9 44416 46041 819472+ 83 Linux /dev/hda10 46042 49089 1536160+ 16 Hidden FAT16 /dev/hda11 49090 50114 516568+ 16 Hidden FAT16 The hidden stuff and hda2 have been added in the meantime on the comment that NT might not boot from the logical drive hda10. This is why I put it forward to hda2. When I now issue the usual commands: rootnoverify (hd0,1) makeactive (though it is !) chainloader +1 boot it comes up with Disk I/O error: Status = 00000001 and I have to turn off the power. If I do, however, boot nicely to hda1 (or hda3) - Linux /boot - the disk boots up very properly. So it can't be a disk error. Then I can also nicely mount -t vfat /dev/hda2 /mnt/whatsoever and /mnt/whatsoever will show me the files necessary for the NT boot process: ntldr, boot.ini, ntdetect plus the rest of C: So it seems nothing is missing, anything mounts but hda2 doesn't boot. Any more ideas ? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com

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Re: Still no success with boot to NT on hda2

Uwe Dippel wrote: > > --- David Balazic <david.balazic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Wintendo is very picky about partitions. > > Try to add a command that hides hda1 ( I don't know the exact syntax, > > maybe "hide (hd0,0)" ) > > Had - of course - tried all of this. > Hide the first partition; check What happened ? Did it help ? > What else ? Delete windows :-) > > Thanks ! > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. > http://search.yahoo.com -- David Balazic -------------- "Be excellent to each other." - Bill S. Preston, Esq., & "Ted" Theodore Logan - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -