[syslinux] Dual-booting VMware and chainbooting GRUB
Pete Zaitcev
zaitcev at redhat.com
Fri Mar 18 22:01:43 PDT 2011
Dear All:
I am having trouble trying to dual-boot VMware and Linux, and I tried
everything I could come up with.
The situation is that /dev/sda is fully used by VMware and /dev/sdb
is used by Linux. VMware uses Syslinux, so I thought this would be
simple... However, it is not. The bootable FAT partition is too smal
to have kernels in it. As a fallback I tried to chain-load GRUB,
but that did not work.
Here's the syslinux.cfg:
DEFAULT linux
PROMPT 1
TIMEOUT 50
LABEL linux
COM32 chain.c32
APPEND hd1
LABEL grub
COM32 chain.c32
APPEND hd1 1 grub=/grub/stage2 grubcfg=/grub/grub.conf
LABEL grub2
COM32 chain.c32
APPEND fs grub=stage2.dat grubcfg=menu.lst
LABEL grub3
COM32 chain.c32
APPEND hd0 4 grub=stage2.dat grubcfg=menu.lst
LABEL vmware
COM32 safeboot.c32
None of the above works except the VMware. Chainloading hd1 ("linux")
ends with no new messages, nothing happening. System is not locked up
though, ctlr-alt-del reboots it. Same happens with label "grub".
Labels "grub2" and "grub3" complain of partition not found.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thank you,
-- Pete
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