Re: Can run from Live DVD; install; Grub Error 15 on attempt to boot
Not sure what happened last time. I am now able to see my NTFS-formatted volumes, though I do have to enter my password once initially to access them. Is there any way to automate that? Clearly, the NFTS-3G utility is here somewhere, or I wouldn't be able to read the NTFS volumes at all, right?
So far, I can't get Windows XP to boot through GRUB. GRUB says "Starting up" then appears to give up, and I'm back at the initial menu with a choice of which OS to boot.
What's weird is that Windows IS on the "first" hard disk, as far as GRUB is concerned. I know XP doesn't "like" to boot off anything but the first HDD, but the SATA drive on which my Win XP boot volume resides is seen as hd0, partition 0, by GRUb already. So I shouldn't need to do the drive-remapping trick in my menu.lst file, right? Yet XP won't boot this way.
In my BIOS I have the IDE drive (confusingly called "HDD 0" by the BIOS!) set for first boot, such that GRUB will come up and I will get a choice of OS's. This IDE drive is the one on which my Kubuntu install resides. So GRUB will just boot Kubuntu, if I don't do anything. The SATA drive with my Win XP boot volume is the first SATA drive, numbered 0 by the BIOS. Don't know if any of that matters.
I guess I could put GRUB on my SATA disk with Windows, but I'm very, very reluctant to mess with the MBR of my Windows XP volume. It's easy to break a Windows install, and much more painful to fix it than Kubuntu.
Not sure what happened last time. I am now able to see my NTFS-formatted volumes, though I do have to enter my password once initially to access them. Is there any way to automate that? Clearly, the NFTS-3G utility is here somewhere, or I wouldn't be able to read the NTFS volumes at all, right?
So far, I can't get Windows XP to boot through GRUB. GRUB says "Starting up" then appears to give up, and I'm back at the initial menu with a choice of which OS to boot.
What's weird is that Windows IS on the "first" hard disk, as far as GRUB is concerned. I know XP doesn't "like" to boot off anything but the first HDD, but the SATA drive on which my Win XP boot volume resides is seen as hd0, partition 0, by GRUb already. So I shouldn't need to do the drive-remapping trick in my menu.lst file, right? Yet XP won't boot this way.
In my BIOS I have the IDE drive (confusingly called "HDD 0" by the BIOS!) set for first boot, such that GRUB will come up and I will get a choice of OS's. This IDE drive is the one on which my Kubuntu install resides. So GRUB will just boot Kubuntu, if I don't do anything. The SATA drive with my Win XP boot volume is the first SATA drive, numbered 0 by the BIOS. Don't know if any of that matters.
I guess I could put GRUB on my SATA disk with Windows, but I'm very, very reluctant to mess with the MBR of my Windows XP volume. It's easy to break a Windows install, and much more painful to fix it than Kubuntu.
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