[SOLVED] vista on drive sdb 1tb drive-PcLosFM on 2nd drive SDA not boot 2 vista

[Duke3z]

I want to thank the people who have welcomed me to these forums and are already looking to help me out.  It's a nice feeling, I appreciate it.

Here's the deal.  Been running my vista for 3 years on a 1tb drive split in half with the first being the boot partition and software and the second is simply years of files in storage and 60gb of mp3's, soo it's imperative that i do not cripple the vista drive.  So I put PClosFM on a second hdd 300mb serving the PclosFM only.  Originally it wouldn't install because of the need for more than 10mb for "/".  I got over that problem after a couple days of reading all I could.  I of course i did it that way to preserve the vista from a rookie mistake installing Linux so i unhooked the 1tb drive and installed linux to the 300mb drive.  In grub i gave it a windows menu entry, rebooted tried to start vista and got this;

"root (hd0,0)
filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 chainloader +1
Error 13: invalid or unsupported executable format"

In prior linux installs i was able to put them both on seperate drives and when both drives were hooked up Grub found the other drive and added it to the menu. this time it didn't do that and it's been bugging me ever since.  I have been able to access the ntfs files with no problem in PcLos. I just am too new to figure out what i'm missing.

My thoughts on it: I know windows wants to be the 1st hdd at this point i'm not sure what to do about that.  I'm terrified to lose my data on the M$ side.  It must be something I need to do something with grub to see the M$ drive.  My system specs are listed in my sig line and I believe i have provided enough info on this.  If not please let me know and I'll answer anything needed.

d3z

edit: fify

[Old-Polack]

I want to thank the people who have welcomed me to these forums and are already looking to help me out.  It's a nice feeling, I appreciate it.

Here's the deal.  Been running my vista for 3 years on a 1tb drive split in half with the first being the boot partition and software and the second is simply years of files in storage and 60gb of mp3's, soo it's imperative that i do not cripple the vista drive.  So I put PClosFM on a second hdd 300mb serving the PclosFM only.  Originally it wouldn't install because of the need for more than 10mb for "/".  I got over that problem after a couple days of reading all I could.  I of course i did it that way to preserve the vista from a rookie mistake installing Linux so i unhooked the 1tb drive and installed linux to the 300mb drive.  In grub i gave it a windows menu entry, rebooted tried to start vista and got this;

"root (hd0,0)
filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 chainloader +1
Error 13: invalid or unsupported executable format"

In prior linux installs i was able to put them both on seperate drives and when both drives were hooked up Grub found the other drive and added it to the menu. this time it didn't do that and it's been bugging me ever since.  I have been able to access the ntfs files with no problem in PcLos. I just am too new to figure out what i'm missing.

My thoughts on it: I know windows wants to be the 1st hdd at this point i'm not sure what to do about that.  I'm terrified to lose my data on the M$ side.  It must be something I need to do something with grub to see the M$ drive.  My system specs are listed in my sig line and I believe i have provided enough info on this.  If not please let me know and I'll answer anything needed.

d3z

If you are booting from the 300 GB drive, and Vista is on the first partition of the 1 TB drive, use this Windows boot stanza in your /boot/grub/menu.lst.

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

[Duke3z]

Thank You Old-Pollock that fixed it right off!  Grub is loading correctly now.  I bet many more people have this problem that do not take the time to fix and give up right away.  Is this answer else where? because i looked for what i thought was pretty good.

Thanks Again,,, tomorrow must fix Hdmi sound 

[Duke3z]

How does it get changed to solved?/

[AS]

How does it get changed to solved?/

Edit your first post in this thread and add [ SOLVED ] to the subject line. 

AS

[Old-Polack]

Thank You Old-Pollock that fixed it right off!  Grub is loading correctly now.  I bet many more people have this problem that do not take the time to fix and give up right away.  Is this answer else where? because i looked for what i thought was pretty good.

Thanks Again,,, tomorrow must fix Hdmi sound  

I've posted it each time someone asks, because it's quicker for me to do so than search for the other dozens of replies where it's posted. Others have also posted similar stanzas, differing only in the drive and partition indicated, depending on where the Windows installation partition is, and the total number of hard drives present in a given machine.

[Duke3z]

Thanks alot for the help guys.  I've been running only FM for a week now and don't have any complaints.  I'm going to fiind the irc channel now.