F8/F9 Multiboot question

[Daniel B. Thurman]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>
> Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> > As I pointed out, I was ABLE to boot w2kPro, XP, and Vista
> > ONLY if my BIOs is set to boot Windows-Drive as the
> > Primary boot drive. Heck - the boot-loader IS Grub! It WORKS
> > and note that the boot-win is a logical partition! As the table
> > shows, for the Windows drive, partition-1 is w2kPro, 2nd is XP,
> > 3rd is Vista, 5th is boot-win, and 6th is w-App1
> >
> > The problem is, that if I switch via BIOs primary boot drive
> > to a Fedora-ONLY drive for which the generic boot-sys has
> > chain-loader entries, Grub sees F8, F9, and Vista - but does
> > not see w2kPro nor XP!
> >
> Take a look at the Grub map command - it can set the conditions as
> if you the BIOS was set to boot from the Windows drive. This will
> make Windows happy, while still letting you have the Fedora drive as
> the first boot drive.
>
> You can probably use something like this:
>
> title Drive B
>        map (hd0) (hd1)
>        map (hd1) (hd0)
>        chainloader (hd0)
>
> I did this from memory, so I may have some of the syntax wrong. What
> it should do is remap the drives just like you had booted from the
> Windows drive, and then just to the boot loader on that drive.
>
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!
That did the trick!

For me, just add the two map lines above the "root (hdX,Y)"
and only for w2kPro and XP and I am done!

This concludes my issues and I am happy as a clam!
Kudos!

Dan