Grub + WinXP

Rick Stevens rstevens at vitalstream.com
Thu Nov 20 21:44:47 UTC 2003


David Limon Romero wrote:
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> Hi all, I've recently subscribed to this list.
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> Yesterday I installed fedora, it's running fine, but I can't boot winxp on the 
> 2nd HD with grub.
> 
> when I was using lilo, I used:
> other=/dev/hdb1
> 	label=Winxp
> 	map-drive=0x80
> 	to=0x81
> 
> but grub sintax is different, someone can tell me how to enable booting to 
> winxp with grub? (I've never used it before)

Verify that the /boot/grub/grub.conf file has a "DOS" section in it.
If it does, grub should present you with (at least) two choices.  If
you select the "DOS" choice, WinXP should boot.
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