Help installing the GRUB loader.

[Scy7he]

FYI: I have 2 hard drives - hda (with windows XP home) and hdb (with RH Linux 9)

Help, when I installed RH Linux 9 I installed grub on HDA but linux is on HDB. After I installed it on hda it screwed up my partion tables and such, and I had to undo it. So now I only boot to Win XP and hafta use a boot disk to get to Linux.

So now I'm trying to install GRUB to my hdb and just boot to that, and then pick the OS I want to use. I've installed it using the grub disk, and I tried grub-install /dev/hdb. They install but when I boot to hdb, it gives me all kinds of error messages, and everything is monotone with lines across it, I can barely read it.

It ends up bringing the grub loader up, but like I said it's all grainy and in black and white. I can try to boot to XP and Linux but neither work. I even looked at my menu.lst file and everything looks fine....

Help????

[mdwatts]

How do you boot to hdb? Change the cables/jumpers or the boot device in the bios?

If you have Linux installed on hdb and don't want to use a bootdisk, either use the NT/W2K/XP bootloader (lots of docs around on this) or install the Linux bootloader in the mbr of hda.

[Scy7he]

yeah I do it thru BIOS. There's a Windows boot loader? wow didn't know that, I'll check it out. Thx

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by Scy7he
There's a Windows boot loader? wow didn't know that, I'll check it out. Thx

Something like c:\boot.ini (it's hidden so you need to change the properties)

Search Google for Linux for 'NT bootloader' and you will find lots of docs on the subject.

We might even have a JL Help File. Even searching the JL forums for 'boot.ini' will find some and then (if I remember), someone has written a tutorial in the 'How I did it' forum on using boot.ini.