Trying to Add Vista to Grub Loader!!

[spooter]

Hi all,

I am trying to add Vista to my grub loader but its just not working for some reason.

Setup

I have 3 hard disks

Disk 1 - 80G Kubuntu 64bit 8.10

Disk 2 - 500G Windows Vista 64bit HP Trial

Disk 3 - 320G Windows Vista 32Bit Ultimate.

I am able to boot the first two because Kubuntu was installed after the 64bit install of Windows and autmatically added it to the grub loader. The second windows was installed on a separate disk when the other disks werent connected.

I have booted in Kubuntu and done a df to view the disks.

One of the Windows disks is sda1 and the other sdb1.

I have opened the menu.lst and can see the working Vista loader is hd(0,0) so I have tried adding alot of the options such as hd(1,0) etc... but it still fails to load so I tried

Open Konsole.
sudo grub
grub>geometry (hd<press the TAB key now>
(do not type the symbols < or >)
and you'll get a list of drives as seen by BIOS and GRUB.
Explore each one by typing
grub>geometry (hd0)
grub>geometry (hd1)
etc.

I can see the disk I wish to load is hd1 but still not sure why it wont boot when I add that to menu.

Thanks for your help all im probably just doing something stupid.

[Snowhog]

Re: Trying to Add Vista to Grub Loader!!

HOW TO: GRUB Methods - Toolkit

[Qqmike]

Re: Trying to Add Vista to Grub Loader!!

"I can see the disk I wish to load is hd1 but still not sure why it wont boot when I add that to menu.
Thanks for your help all im probably just doing something stupid."

Not really, but you are not telling us what happens -- what errors you get and so on.

Probably this:

How To GRUB Methods - Toolkit
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3081671.0
--- Install Windows XP *after* Kubuntu, and install XP to a non-first hard drive: map command Reply #12


And keep this one handy if you are going to use Vista:
Vista *** The definitive dual-booting guide: Linux, Vista and XP step-by-step
http://apcmag.com/dualboot