[PLUG] Dual booting

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Jason Dagit wrote:

> I know that win9x/NT are supposed to be booted off /dev/hda, but has
> anyone here been able to get them to boot from /dev/hdb?  I would like
> to move my win98 partition to /dev/hdb1 (it is /dev/hda3 now) and then
> upgrade it to win2k.  So far, I have been unable to make win98 boot
> from /dev/hdb1.  Here are some of the things I have tried:
> 
> 1. Telling GRUB to swap /dev/hda1 and /dev/hdb1 so that windows would
>    think it is on the first partition of the first hard drive.  All I
>    get is funny characters when I try to boot.

Jason,

  Did you use the chainloader phrase in /boot/grub/grub.conf? There was
similar magic in LILO that made the Microsoft loaders think they were where
they wanted to be.

Rich