[wplug] Grub - Windows Drive arrangements.....

[William Powell]

The IDE drive used for linux is formatted as EXT3.  But, Windows managed 
to recognize it enough to assign it a drive letter (D:), and moved all 
the other drives down one letter assignment.

Coutch, Robert wrote:

>Windows doesn't normally recognize any partitions not marked as DOS or
>Windows types or formatted with
>FAT/NTFS.
>
>I'm guessing you did NOT format your Linux partition as FAT/VFAT/NTFS so
>check the partition type
>with fdisk, cfdisk or parted and make sure it's a Linux type (0x83).
>
>
>Good Luck,
>
>Bob
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: R.E.Coutch [mailto:coutchre at usaor.net]
>Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 12:32 AM
>To: coutchre at tvratings.com
>Subject: [wplug] Grub - Windows Drive arrangements.....
>
>
>My new installation of RH 8.0 w/ Grub as the bootloader caused some 
>strange mapping of my drives in windows.  RH is on a 16 gig IDE Drive 
>and Winblows is on an old 4 gig SCSI HD. The CD Rom drives are located 
>at SCSI ID's of 0,2,0 and 0,4,0 in the parlance of Linux SCSI addressing.
>
>Below is the 'DOS' section of my grub.conf file.  The default install of 
>grub did not include the two lines that start with 'map' to change the 
>virtual mapping of the two hard drives so that Windows sees the SCSI 
>Hard drive as the first hard drive.
>
>title DOS
>        rootnoverify (hd1,0)
>        chainloader +1
>        map (hd0) (hd1)
>        map (hd1) (hd0)
>
>Now to the problem:  In Windows, the only recognized hard drive was the 
>Windows SCSI drive as C: and it's second Partition as D:.  The CDROMs 
>were E: and F:.  In the past using LILO with older distro's, LILO's 
>mapping did not disurb the layout of Windows drive naming scheme. 
> Previously, with LILO in Windows, the Linux Hard drive was no where to 
>be found(as is should be).
>
>With the new Grub install.  What I assume to be the Linux hard drive now 
>shows up as D: although it is not accessable.  The second partition of 
>the Windows SCSI gets shuffled down to E: and the CDROM drives are now 
>F: and G:.  This messes up any shared folders I had and numerous 
>configuration files.
>
>I think the difference is that the bootloader is installed on the Linux 
>drive MBR instead of the SCSI MBR as I believe it was in the past.  
>
>Does this sound like the cause?  
>
>I just have to figure out how to get grub to install it's bootloader on 
>the SCSI MBR.  
>
>Will have to dig for The Fine Manual.
>
>Bill
>
> 
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