Hi, I have two hardrives set up with various OSs

I have an 11gig (i know i am poor right now) with windows xp

and

I have an 8gig (again i say i am poor) with redhat linux 9

okay now the problem, when i go to boot, i want to get onto my windows xp but when i select it it says (i changed the dos name to windows xp)

booting "windows xp"
rootnoverify(.... 0,0)
(sum link +1 thing)

then it stops, I have to restart my computer and the only thing i can get into is linux.

Please help, anything is apprieciated.

btw, i have tried editing my boot.conf, but even when i set up with root, i still get access denied. THX

plz help, i am having alot of trouble, anything u can do would be greatly apprieciated

you mean grub.conf?

it should look like this:

title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8)
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img
title WindowsXP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

just make sure that the correct locations are listed ie 0 = Master, 1 = Slave etc

one problem, I dont know how to edit the grub.conf.
hehehe see i told u was a newb but if u can help me figure out how to edit it then that would be great.

oh yeah, i can get to the folder /boot/grub but i dont know how to edit grub.conf, wut is the command? i am using the terminal (when i try to exec it gives me permission denied even though i have myself set on root, using su pass

gnu newb if u can help me then u would be my hero and it would be greatly apprieciated, btw also when i go to it using the default graphic explorer, it says that it doesnt have the correct software to open it.

you need to use an editor like kate or gedit. but in a terminal you can use vi or joe. (the editors are a little easier.)

by the way, hd(0,0) the first number is the hard drive and the second is the partition.

oh so when i know how to edit it, u mean to change the (hd0,0) to (hd1,2) (its the primary slave (my windows drive))

Windows acts funny when it isn't the first partition on the first drive. that may be the problem.

okay i have tried a few combinations to no prevail, so my setup is like this
primary master:dvd burner
primary slave:11gig windows drive
secondary master:nothing
secondary slave:8gig linux drive

all only have 1 partition on each. can u tell me exacally wut numbers i gotta use?

you'll just have to play around with it. try (1,0) or (0,1) or (1,1). Hope that helps.

change your windows drive to a master, you can't have 2 slaves.

where did you find this info?

change your windows drive to a master, you can't have 2 slaves.

alright i changed sumthings around,

prime master: 11gig windows drive
prime slave: dvd burner
secondary master:none
secondary slave:8gig linux drive

plz just tell me the numbers, i have tried lots, when i use 0,0 it says thing and then just stops

PLZ HELPPPPPP!!!!!