View Single Post
Old 03-11-2007, 19:16   #14
Alien
Inactive
 
Alien's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: UK
Services: VM Phone, V+, VM 10Mb
Posts: 2,655
Alien is cast in bronzeAlien is cast in bronzeAlien is cast in bronzeAlien is cast in bronze
Alien is cast in bronzeAlien is cast in bronzeAlien is cast in bronzeAlien is cast in bronzeAlien is cast in bronzeAlien is cast in bronzeAlien is cast in bronze
Re: Multi-booting Linux & XP

Quote:
Originally Posted by Cobbydaler View Post
If you do (as root) cat /boot/grub/device.map it will tell you exactly what is what.

e.g. mine is:

Code:
cat /boot/grub/device.map
(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/hda
(hd1) /dev/hdb
(hd2) /dev/hdd
It is likely that sdb is hd2
Ugh, terminal window! how do I do something as root again? Bearing in mind I haven't installed yet, & am still running from a Live CD. The only thing I could remember, from previous dalliances with Linux was the SU command, for which it wants a password, but it hasn't asked me to set 1 at any point! I vaguely remembered the sudo command, & thought that might be worth a try, but with or without it, it just says
Quote:
cat: /boot/grub/device.map: No such file or directory
Alien is offline   Reply With Quote