[ale] Games and Grub

Matty matty91 at bellsouth.net
Sun Dec 7 17:45:43 EST 2003


Which IDE device has Windows XP installed?

On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 10:35, Robert Coggins wrote:
> Hey all!
> 
> OK I have 2 machines.  One is strictly linux.  I want to play some cool 
> 3d shootem up games like unreal or quake etc on it.  I do not want to 
> add anything windows to this machine. so no wine etc... Do you guys have 
> a suggestion for a website to look at?  I am looking for somehting 
> free.  I never play games but I wouldn't mind getting a game to "escape" 
> once a month or so.
> 
> Here is my main problem though.  I have another computer with nothing 
> but linux.  I found an old 40 GB HDD I thought was defective but 
> actually is not.  It has windowsXP (ntfs) on it.  I would like to setup 
> dual boot but I do not want to reinstall anything.  I put what I thought 
> were the correct settings for grub but I keep getting an error 11 if I 
> try to boot to winxp.  It will boot fine to linux.  ANy suggestions.
> 
> Linux drive is hda
> win drive is hdb
> 
> Here is my grub.conf file
> 
> default=0
> timeout=10
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2115.nptl)
>         root (hd0,0)
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi rhgb
>         initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img
> title Windows XP Professional
>         map (hd0)(hd1)
>         map (hd1)(hd0)
>         rootnoverify (hd1,1)
>         chainloader +1
> 
> Thanks for any help in advance.
> 
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