[wplug] Trouble Getting Dual Boot to Work

[Robert E. Coutch]

Try setting the jumpers on the drive to master and slave for drive 0 and 1 
respectively.

-Bob

On Sunday 20 February 2005 01:04 pm, Greg Simkins wrote:
> Hi, Can anybody help me figure out this install problem?  I want to set up
> Grub to Dual Boot Windows and Suse Linux.
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> I got a hold of an excessed Dell OptiPlex GS110, Pentium 933 MHz, 128 MB
> Ram, 4 GB Maxtor Drive with Windows XP installed.
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> I added at 60GB Maxtor Drive as drive 0 and moved the original XP drive to
> drive 1.  I used cable select jumper positions on both drives.  Then I
> installed Suse Linux 9.2 on the new primary drive.
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>
> The Suse install went reasonable well.  When the install was finished, it
> initially failed to boot to X and the level it did boot to didn't work.  I
> couldn't even issue a shutdown command.  But when I powered down and
> restarted, Suse worked fine.  Grub shows Suse as default and it recognized
> that I have a windows drive and it offered windows as a selection - but
> when I select Windows, it won't boot.  I get this error:  21 : Selected
> disk does not exist
>
> A google search give this further explanation:This error is returned if the
> device part of a device- or full file name refers to a disk or BIOS device
> that is not present or not recognized by the BIOS in the system.
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> I went into BIOS and I see that drive 1 is "OFF".  I can't select an "ON"
> option - only unknown.  When I selected unknown and tried to boot to
> windows from Grub, I get this error:
>
> root (hd1,0)
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> File System type unknown, partition type 0x7
>
> chainloader +1
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> If I power down and put the primary drive cable connection back to the
> original drive, Windows boots with no problem.  None of the connector pins
> are bent over.
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> Is this a cable problem?  Should I jumper the Windows drive as slave?  Any
> ideas?
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> Greg Simkins
>
> Pittsburgh, PA
>
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