Fredrik Eriksson wrote:
> I think you may have to chroot into the Linux installation before 
> setting up GRUB if the installed version is not the same as the one on 
> the CD. GRUB will crap out if stage1 and stage2 are from different 
> versions.

Hmmm. Fair enough. But I didn't do any updates on at least some of the 
tests, so I'm assuming the two versions were the same.

> You did not show the contents of grub.conf, so we will just have to 
> assume it is correct.

I didn't touch it, other than to copy it to a tar file and back. No 
manual editing at all.

> It is not clear to me exactly what you are trying to accomplish. Do you 
> want GRUB to chain-load Vista, or do you want the Vista loader to 
> chain-load GRUB?

I want Vista to chain-load GRUB. (More precisely, I want Vista to chain 
load Linux, but LILO wasn't happy either.)  I can do it easily when I 
first install Linux, but if I get into a situation with an unrecoverable 
error (dead hard drive, user screw-up, etc) where I have to restore from 
backups, I can't get Linux to boot again.

Having GRUB chain-load Vista would be acceptable too. If the Linux gets 
screwed up, I have the tools on bootable CD to fix stuff to boot 
directly into the Vista partition, so I could back up anything I hadn't 
backed up there if I screw up GRUB, for example. But I need to be able 
to recover from a crash that makes the partition unbootable.

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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