tyga

Thanks for the replies,

Yes, I suspect it has something to do with the SATA drive.

I place windows on the primary sata drive and linux on the primary IDE drive, then I boot from the primary IDE drive with the Grub boot loader.

Most people tend to place the boot loader on the windows drive but I hate having to mess around with the windows MFT in the event I hose my linux installation. It is just something I have always done because of head aches caused when I first discovered linux. Besides I like linux to be first and windows second, it's a psychological thing.

HDA Linux, Boot drive

HDC FAT32 drive

SDA WinXP

As you can see, it isn't the usual configuration.

I'll take your suggestions and do some more investigation.

I don't understand how the boot menu can be wrong yet still work?

I'm using Mandriva 2005 x86_64

I'm dual booting with winXP ( Yes, I still use Windows for games ) here is the boot list.

timeout 30

default 6

title linux

kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 resume=/dev/hda5 splash=silent vga=788

initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img

title linux-nonfb

kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 resume=/dev/hda5

initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img

title failsafe

kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 failsafe resume=/dev/hda5 devfs=nomount

initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img

title windows

root (hd1,0)

map (0x81) (0x80)

map (0x80) (0x81)

makeactive

chainloader +1

title windows1

root (hd2,0)

map (0x82) (0x80)

map (0x80) (0x82)

makeactive

chainloader +1

title 2611-6

kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11-6mdk root=/dev/hda1 resume=/dev/hda5 splash=silent vga=788

initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd-2.6.11-6mdk.img

title 2611-12

kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11-12mdk root=/dev/hda1 resume=/dev/hda5 splash=silent vga=794

initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd-2.6.11-12mdk.img

Now, what is odd, is during boot, if I want to boot winXP, I have to choose the menu titled 'window' not 'window1' but winXP is on the 'window1' partition not the 'window' partition.

Device map:

(hd0) /dev/hda Linux drive

(hd1) /dev/hdc spare fat32 drive used for swapping files into winxp

(hd2) /dev/sda Winxp drive

It is still working so it isn't really a problem but I want to know why it is working when it appears to be broken?

tyga

If you dont mind, could u tell me how to fix it, I have the same problem.

I have to mount the windows XP drive manually, mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows

I want it to mount auto

heres my fstab

/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1

none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0

/dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2

/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0

/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,ro,exec 0 0

none /mnt/hd supermount dev=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0

none /proc proc defaults 0 0

/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0

thanks

i had the same problem

i just mounted it as root

mount /dev/hdxx /mnt/windows

in conlole as root

My windows drive isnt auto mounting for some reason that i havnet figured out as of yet

I have the same problem, MDK10 doesn't seem to want to update, is this some kind of conspiracy, surely MDK10 wasnt that polished it doesn't need any updates. :P

Cool, thanks aRTee

Ive had the exact same problem, Mandrake 10 wont boot from the cd.