Virtual Box & Windows -

[Carroll Grigsby]

On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 06:30:13 -0400
Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> wrote:

> On 27/03/11 18:32, Mikkel wrote:
> > On 03/22/2011 04:19 PM, compdoc wrote:
> >>> My problem is
> >>> that the only way I can get Windows to run is to plug it into
> >>> the first slot, then Windows boots but I never see grub.
> >> By first slot I guess you sata port? It's been a while since I've
> >> noticed Windows caring about device order. I have seen windows try
> >> to change its drive letter when it finds itself on a new drive
> >> port, but that was only under certain conditions.
> >>
> >> When you move your windows drive to port 1, you don't see grub
> >> because grub is installed on the other drive. Unfortunately, I
> >> don't know anything about dual booting with grub, so maybe someone
> >> else here can tell you how...
> >>
> >> I think if you were to place your windows drive in port 1, and
> >> then were to set up grub to run from the windows drive, it would
> >> solve the problem?
> >>
> > I am late to this thread, so it may already have been mentioned, but
> > you may want to look at the map option in Grub.
> >
> > 	rootnoverify (hd0,0)
> > 	map (hd0) (hd1)
> > 	map (hd1) (hd0)
> > 	chainloader +1
> >
> > Mikkel
> 
>         I managed to create a grub.conf that works [a minor miracle].
>         However I am interested in this.
> 
>         I don't see the "map" option in man grub?
> 
>         Info grub is hard to deal with, copied it to info.txt which
>         produces 73 pages in an openoffice document using a font large
>         enough that I can see ...
> 
>         How do I use the "map" option?
> 
>         Bob
> 

Bob:
Pretty much all about Grub:
http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/grub.html

A minor point: Fedora's configuration file for grub is grub.conf rather
that menu.lst, menu.lst is a link to grub.conf.

Also, this document does *not* apply to Grub2, but since Fedora uses the
old Grub 0.97 so you're good to go. For a while.

-- cmg