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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users grub to boot windows Post 302400960 by gaurav1086 on Thursday 4th of March 2010 03:26:51 PM
Old 03-04-2010
grub to boot windows
Hello,

I am using debian-5.0.0(lenny) . I installed windows xp(a hacked version) on a usb stick. this stick works perfectly well and boots off a windows system successfully.
but on linux it is finding problems to do so.

So I finally decided to put a grub entry to boot off the usb HDD.

So here are the short details . Please have a look.

My menu.lst
Code:
title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-686
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=/dev/sda3 ro
initrd          /initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686

title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-686 (single-user mode)
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=/dev/sda3 ro single
initrd          /initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686

title           Xen 3.2-1-i386 /Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-xen-i386
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /xen-3.2-1-i386.gz
module          /vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-xen-686 root=/dev/sda3
module          /initrd.img-2.6.26-2-xen-686

title           WINDOWS XP
rootnoverify    (hd1,0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
makeactive
chainloader     +1

My device.map file is this

Code:
cat /boot/grub/device.map 
(hd0)    /dev/sda
(hd1)    /dev/sdb

and finally the output of fdisk -l is as follows

Code:
localhost:/home/gaurav# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf8000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1          16      128488+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2   *          17         502     3903795   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3             503       19457   152256037+  83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 305245 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000c6cde

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1       52000    53247984    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2           52001      305244   259321856    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb5           52001      305244   259321840    7  HPFS/NTFS
localhost:/home/gaurav#

well so after choosing Windows XP at the grub menu, it prints this to the console

Code:
Booting           WINDOWS XP
rootnoverify    (hd1,0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
makeactive
chainloader     +1

and then halts . apparently not responding at all.

the same usb hdd boots successfully off a windows system but its facing some problem off this.
My bios perfectly supports usb boot as I have installed debian over the usb through netinstall-iso image and unetbootin.

I am using dell-1520 notebook.

If anyone faced a similar situation, Please let me know.

Thanks,
Regards,

Gaurav.
 

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