From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id lBJI4dIr023058 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:04:39 -0500 Received: from clarity.mcc.ac.uk (clarity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.144]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id lBJI4459026342 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:04:04 -0500 Received: from kelvin.its.manchester.ac.uk ([130.88.25.195]) by clarity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1J53H1-000JJB-PW for linux-lvm@redhat.com; Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:04:03 +0000 Received: from veri.phy.umist.ac.uk ([130.88.15.180]:34904) by kelvin.its.manchester.ac.uk with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1J53H1-0006qN-K8 for linux-lvm@redhat.com; Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:04:03 +0000 Subject: RE: [linux-lvm] won't dual boot: 2 disks and LVM From: michael In-Reply-To: <7C6C00FDABF70949A0A5D4DD8A4DC2170474A35A@CORPUSMX20A.corp.emc.com> References: <1197988092.29413.77.camel@veri.phy.umist.ac.uk> <7C6C00FDABF70949A0A5D4DD8A4DC2170474A353@CORPUSMX20A.corp.emc.com> <1198010286.6637.10.camel@amd64.local> <7C6C00FDABF70949A0A5D4DD8A4DC2170474A356@CORPUSMX20A.corp.emc.com> <1198058368.3859.10.camel@amd64.local> <1198059645.4768f07d37201@imp.free.fr> <1198059909.3859.21.camel@amd64.local> <7C6C00FDABF70949A0A5D4DD8A4DC2170474A35A@CORPUSMX20A.corp.emc.com> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:04:03 +0000 Message-Id: <1198087443.3292.6.camel@veri.phy.umist.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: LVM general discussion and development On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 09:33 -0500, pham_cuong@emc.com wrote: > Instead of discussing back and forth w/o real data to discuss/explore with concrete evidences, could you: > > A. Post the content of both the grub.conf and boot.ini files mkb@veri:~$ sudo cat /boot/grub/grub.conf # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/sda default=0 timeout=30 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Fedora (2.6.23.8-34.fc7) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.23.8-34.fc7 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb agp=off #MKB: added agp=off initrd /initrd-2.6.23.8-34.fc7.img title Fedora (2.6.22.4-65.fc7) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22.4-65.fc7 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb agp=off #MKB: added agp=off initrd /initrd-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.img title WinXP map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) rootnoverify (hd1,0) chainloader +1 mkb@veri:~$ cat /mnt/winXP/boot.ini [boot loader] timeout=1 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect > B. Tell us the physical position of each of the drive, and can't open case but there's 2 SATA drives one of 500GB (Fedora/LVM) and the other of 750GB (XP and a ext3 partition) > C. The current BIOS setting the usual setting I use is first try to boot from 500GB and then from 750GB > D. Any observed behavior with the settings stated in A,B, and C. (a) with BIOS HD boot order [500,750], and select WinXP, it starts to boot XP and I see the XP logo/splash with the moving blue bar, then it goes blank and the HD light is on for a couple of minutes but then nothing more happens apart from the occasional flicker of the HD light (b) with BIOS HD boot order [500,750], and select WinXP, but hit F8 and select 'safe mode' it does boot into safe mode XP although the USB mouse doesn't work. I see a 0 byte C drive and the expected 10 GB E drive (c) with order [750, 500] then I get the same behaviour as (a), (b) depending if I don't/do hit F8 and don't/do select 'safe mode' I'll try wiping the XP and reinstalling from scratch! Although I'm beginning to think using 'vmplayer' and not having to reboot into XP is a better option! Thanks, Michael >