Jeff Sadowski
2006-Jun-30 15:47 UTC
[syslinux] chain.c32 booting windows off a second disk?
I was seeing if I could use chain.c32 to boot windows off of a second drive. I'm pretty sure I'm using it right. Could it be because these are sata drives? I installed FC5 on a second sata drive I had in my new machine. Of course Grub didn't work as I wanted so I decided to try extlinux and if I can get it to work I might switch to syslinux so that I can edit the boot info in windows as well. Anyways I have entries like so #start of extlinux.conf default linux prompt 1 timeout 40 label linux kernel vmlinuz append initrd=initrd.img ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 vga=773 psmouse.proto=synaptics i8042.nomux label memdisk kernel memdisk append initrd=memdisk.img label windows kernel chain.c32 append hd0 0 #end of extlinux.conf linux boots just fine and so does the memory checker but windows doesn't boot from extlinux windows is on the first partition of the first sata drive, under linux it shows as /dev/sda1 would I use sd0? but that didn't seem to work either I tried many combinations to chain.c32 I tried hd0 sd0 sd0 0 I even tried other partitions hd0 1 hd1 1 Nothing seemed to do anything with partitions that didn't exist it seemed to start loading and stall and with the others it would return me to the syslinux command prompt. Well if there is a solution or some more things I can try I'd like to give it a shot. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com