[Tfug] newbie questions

[Michael Stenner]

On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 08:36:53AM -0700, Ranjan Grover wrote:
> I attached another HDD with windows on it and can't get it to dual boot 
> with Linux, i.e, I changed the grub.conf file in /etc to read for the 
> windows part
> title Windows XP
> unhide (hd1,0)
> rootnoverify (hd1,0)
> chainloader +1
> 
> This doesn't seem to work and I get an error message when I try to boot 
> into windows.

I have never known windows to be happy booting from anything other
than hda1.  That might have changed, but I haven't seen it.  Try

 a) getting a boot/root disk and verifying that it works (you can
    mount your linux partition, etc)
 b) rearranging your disks so that the windows disk is hda
 c) edit /etc/fstab and rerun grub given the new arrangement

> While reading the windows partitions (NTFS), I notice that I can only 
> mount and read as root. I tried to change the permissions using chmod 
> and also by changing the permissions in /etc/fstab manually. I also 
> tried using Yast but I can't do it. Any suggestions?

How did you change the perms in fstab?  umask=0000?

					-Michael
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