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grub-installer package

Manual configuration needed to boot Windows from second hard disk

Bug #8283 reported by axel c.
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grub-installer (Debian)
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grub-installer (Ubuntu)
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Colin Watson

Bug Description

I have a small XP partition sitting on my 4th ide drive (i have 3 hard disks and
a cd writer). XP seems to barf when trying to boot it from a disk which is not
hd0, so i had to add a couple of map () statements to grub.conf to make it work:

In this case, my 4th hard disk is identified by grub as hd2 (took me a while and
a few reboots to figure that out).

title xp
map (hd2) (hd0)
map (hd0) (hd2)
rootnoverify (hd2,0)
chainloader +1

Maybe the installer should be aware of this kind of setup and automatically add
the maps?

See original description
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In , Joey Hess (joeyh) wrote : reassign 269351 to grub-installer

# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.8.4
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axel c. (axel-banzais) wrote :

I have a small XP partition sitting on my 4th ide drive (i have 3 hard disks and
a cd writer). XP seems to barf when trying to boot it from a disk which is not
hd0, so i had to add a couple of map () statements to grub.conf to make it work:

In this case, my 4th hard disk is identified by grub as hd2 (took me a while and
a few reboots to figure that out).

title xp
map (hd2) (hd0)
map (hd0) (hd2)
rootnoverify (hd2,0)
chainloader +1

Maybe the installer should be aware of this kind of setup and automatically add
the maps?

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

The submitter noted this URL on IRC:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/2003-04/msg00019.html

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Salman Khilji (skhilji) wrote :

I can also confirm this. I had the exact same problem and I had to do the
following to get xp to boot:

title Windows XP
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1

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pointwood (jramskov) wrote :

Another confirmation as I had the same problem. Here's the relevant info from
the GRUB manual: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/map.html

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In , Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote : merging 269351 285508

# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.8.14
merge 269351 285508

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

I just fixed this upstream. Thanks for the information.

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In , Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote : Fixed in NMU of grub-installer 1.08

tag 269351 + fixed

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Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 11:31:43 +0000
Source: grub-installer
Binary: grub-installer
Architecture: source i386
Version: 1.08
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <email address hidden>
Changed-By: Colin Watson <email address hidden>
Description:
 grub-installer - Install GRUB on a hard disk (udeb)
Closes: 269351
Changes:
 grub-installer (1.08) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Joey Hess
     - Since lvdisplay may exit 0 even if run with a non-lvm device (such as
       /dev/discs/disc0/part0, which it knows isn't a lvm device name and
       aborts with an error message, but no failure code due to bug #250906),
       try to make the isinstallable check for /boot on lvm more robust by
       grepping the lvdisplay output for strings that indicate it really found
       a lvm volume.
     - Note that above fix is only needed for lvm1, not the lvm2 used by
       default in d-i.
   * Matt Kraai
     - Fix the spelling of "file system".
   * Colin Watson
     - DOS/Windows can't deal with booting from a non-first hard drive, so,
       if we're asked to install to hd* other than hd0, include suitable
       'map' commands when chain-loading DOS or Windows (closes: #269351).
   * Updated translations:
     - Bulgarian (bg.po) by Ognyan Kulev
     - Bosnian (bs.po) by Safir Å ećerović
     - Welsh (cy.po) by Dafydd Harries
     - Greek (el.po) by Kostas Papadimas
     - Spanish (es.po) by Enrique Matias Sanchez
     - Basque (eu.po) by Piarres Beobide
     - Gallegan (gl.po) by Jacobo Tarrio
     - Hebrew (he.po) by Lior Kaplan
     - Lithuanian (lt.po) by Kęstutis BiliÅ«nas
     - Dutch (nl.po) by Bart Cornelis
     - Polish (pl.po) by Dominik Zablotny
     - Portuguese (Brazil) (pt_BR.po) by André Luís Lopes
     - Portuguese (pt.po) by Miguel Figueiredo
     - Romanian (ro.po) by Ovidiu Damian
     - Russian (ru.po) by Yuri Kozlov
     - Ukrainian (uk.po) by Eugeniy Meshcheryakov
     - Traditional Chinese (zh_TW.po) by Tetralet
Files:
 8d1447637f1ddf903396b685a8c2c318 714 debian-installer standard grub-installer_1.08.dsc
 58b10d154e16498af127cd18eb569a53 71514 debian-installer standard grub-installer_1.08.tar.gz
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In , Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote : [cjwatson@debian.org: Fixed in NMU of grub-installer 1.08]
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Not an NMU.

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Format: 1.7
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 11:31:43 +0000
Source: grub-installer
Binary: grub-installer
Architecture: source i386
Version: 1.08
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <email address hidden>
Changed-By: Colin Watson <email address hidden>
Description:
 grub-installer - Install GRUB on a hard disk (udeb)
Closes: 269351
Changes:
 grub-installer (1.08) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Joey Hess
     - Since lvdisplay may exit 0 even if run with a non-lvm device (such as
       /dev/discs/disc0/part0, which it knows isn't a lvm device name and
       aborts with an error message, but no failure code due to bug #250906),
       try to make the isinstallable check for /boot on lvm more robust by
       grepping the lvdisplay output for strings that indicate it really found
       a lvm volume.
     - Note that above fix is only needed for lvm1, not the lvm2 used by
       default in d-i.
   * Matt Kraai
     - Fix the spelling of "file system".
   * Colin Watson
     - DOS/Windows can't deal with booting from a non-first hard drive, so,
       if we're asked to install to hd* other than hd0, include suitable
       'map' commands when chain-loading DOS or Windows (closes: #269351).
   * Updated translations:
     - Bulgarian (bg.po) by Ognyan Kulev
     - Bosnian (bs.po) by Safir Šećerović
     - Welsh (cy.po) by Dafydd Harries
     - Greek (el.po) by Kostas Papadimas
     - Spanish (es.po) by Enrique Matias Sanchez
     - Basque (eu.po) by Piarres Beobide
     - Gallegan (gl.po) by Jacobo Tarrio
     - Hebrew (he.po) by Lior Kaplan
     - Lithuanian (lt.po) by Kęstutis Biliūnas
     - Dutch (nl.po) by Bart Cornelis
     - Polish (pl.po) by Dominik Zablotny
     - Portuguese (Brazil) (pt_BR.po) by André Luís Lopes
     - Portuguese (pt.po) by Miguel Figueiredo
     - Romanian (ro.po) by Ovidiu Damian
     - Russian (ru.po) by Yuri Kozlov
     - Ukrainian (uk.po) by Eugeniy Meshcheryakov
     - Traditional Chinese (zh_TW.po) by Tetralet
Files:
 8d1447637f1ddf903396b685a8c2c318 714 debian-installer standard grub-installer_1.08.dsc
 58b10d154e16498af127cd18eb569a53 71514 debian-installer standard grub-installer_1.08.tar.gz
 20fd8566cf81eb66d8fd382271ba8956 54514 debian-installer standard grub-installer_1.08_i386.udeb
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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

Fixed in grub-installer 1.08:

  * Colin Watson
    - DOS/Windows can't deal with booting from a non-first hard drive, so,
      if we're asked to install to hd* other than hd0, include suitable
      'map' commands when chain-loading DOS or Windows (closes: #269351).

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