Editing Grub

[Richard E. Barmann]

On Friday 02 June 2006 2:58 pm, Joe Hart wrote:
> Richard E. Barmann wrote:
Could I go to KDE Control Panel/Disks/ and modify the hda1 by unchecking 
"start at bootup"? Then restart and instakk the WindowXP and then restart  
and ensable the hda1 and edit the Grub if it did not pick windows up. Is that 
cirrect?
> > On Friday 02 June 2006 12:02 pm, Tez wrote:
> >> Richard E. Barmann wrote:
> >>> I am using kubuntu and KDE 3.5.2. I have this on a 20G hard drive. Is
> >>> it possible and practical (and easy enough) that I could put Windows on
> >>> my 10G drive that is empty, I have a company that I do some work for
> >>> that needs there reports done on a form that would be better in
> >>> Windows.
> >>
> >> It is possible, you'll just need to add a couple of lines to your
> >> /boot/grub/menu.lst if update-grub didn't detect it.
> >> Something like:
> >> title               Windows
> >> root               (hd1,0)
> >> chainloader   +1
> >>
> >>
> >> Terence Simpson
> >
> > My /boot/grub/menu1st has the linux kernels loaded --"hd 0.0" and the 20
> > g disk is called in "disks dev/hda1" and the 10G disk is called"dev/hdb1"
> > I just want to pass this by you so I do not mess up. Also if I install
> > WindowsXP do I do that after editing Grub? If I start the WindowsXP cd
> > will it give me a chance to choose the 10G drive ? Sorry for all the
> > questions but I want to be sure before I proceed.
>
> No!  Windows XP will trash your MBR (Master Boot Record).  I would
> advise you to disconnect your HD with Linux on it before you install
> Windows.  You may be able to just disable it in your BIOS if it can do
> that.  Install windows then connect your Linux HD back up, then edit the
> menu.lst.  If you already installed Windows, then you're stuck to using
> only Windows until you use a rescue disk to fix your MBR, which you can
> do with Grub by:
>
> #cd /boot/grub
> #grub
> grub>root (hd0,0)
> grub>setup (hd0)
> grub>quit
>
> the grub> are the prompts from the grub command.
>
> your menu.lst should point windows to hd(0,1) since it is hdb1
>
> good luck

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