On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 3:21 AM, Magnus Therning <magnus@therning.org> wrote:
On 30/10/09 07:00, Preston C. wrote:
Hi, I have two hard disks installed in my computer. One for Windows and the other for Arch Linux. I have tried to install Arch several times but get a message write after I click "Arch Linux" from the boot menu- it has something to do with "Error 17".
I have come to see that my Grub configuration file is not configured properly. The problem is I do not know how to configure it properly- so that I can use Windows and Arch.
The way I would like to go about choosing which OS I would like to use is by selecting it from the Grub boot menu. Although, if I have to choose a disk to boot from in the BIOS, than that is not a problem either.
I have read on the Arch Wiki and the Grub Wiki, yet, do not know exactly how to properly configure the Grub configuration file to handle both OS's.
This shouldn't be too difficult to do. Just make sure that Grub itself is on the disk that BIOS boots from. Then then you need stanzas for each system, and since they are on different disks then the root will be different. Assuming you have Arch on your first disk, and Windows on the second something like this ought to take you in the right direction:
title Arch Linux root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/mapper/tatooine-root vga=773 ro initrd /kernel26.img
title Windows rootnoverify (hd1,0) makeactive chainloader +1
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Thank you Magnus, very much. Windows is on the first SATA port, though. Any difference in the configuration of Grub since Windows is on the first SATA port?