No way to boot into MS Windows hard disk

kalinix calin.kalinix.cosma at gmail.com
Wed Feb 14 06:40:39 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 02:42 +0000, Paul Smith wrote:
> On 2/14/07, Tom Browder <tom.browder at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I have two hard disks in my machine:
> > >
> > > * hda --> Fedora Core 6;
> > > * hdb --> Windows XP.
> > >
> > > In grub.conf, I have the following:
> > >
> > > title Windows XP
> > >        rootnoverify (hd1,0)
> > >        makeactive
> > >        chainloader +1
> > >
> > > but I cannot boot into Windows XP. Any ideas?
> >
> > I believe that Win XP does not work on a second drive.  I think your
> > best bet is to swap drives and install grub in the MBR of the new
> > /dev/hda (old /dev/hdb).  Linux will happily boot on a second drive.
> 
> Thanks, Tom, but how can one install grub in the MBR of the new /dev/hda?
> 
> Paul
> 


your XP entry in the grub should look like:

title Windows XP
               map (hd0) (hd1)
               map (hd1) (hd0)
               rootnoverify (hd1,0)
               chainloader +1


Note "map" which fools XP that it boots from the first partition of the
first harddisk


HTH


Calin

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