Re: Chainload to Windows on IDE from SCSI?

[Jago Pearce]

Thanks for your help.
I guess it's looking like my BIOs doesn't provide the support grubs needs to do the job.

The BIOs doesn't have a boot menu so I have to go into BIOs and edit boot options on each change of O/S.

There's got to be a way round this. Is there a lateral kludge
around this? Can smartbootmanager, lilo, or Windows boot sector help?
Can I somehow chainload around the problem? Can I use O/S support to
boot the other drive rather than relying on BIOs support?
The reason I consider this is because I know that I had an old BIOs that couldn't boot from CD so I used smartbootmanager. 

No need to go into specifics I guess that would be offtopic.

Thanks again

On 5/3/06, adrian15 <address@hidden> wrote:

Jago Pearce wrote:
> First of all I'm not new to grub. However, I'm having trouble with
> this setup. I have my Windows partition on my IDE drive and my linux
> partition on my SCSI drive.
>
> I want to use grub to select between the 2 O/S's. Fairly
> straightforward but at the moment I can only do it by going into the
> BIOs and selecting boot from SCSI or boot from IDE.

I think this is not a grub's problem but a bios one. For what you want
to do you need that bios lets you establish hd0 (1st hard disk) as the
IDE hard disk and hd1 (2nd hard disk) as the SCSI hard disk.

If the bios cannot do it... Grub won't see them. Grub will only see a
hard disk at a time.

adrian15