grub.conf help (w/ XP)

[Juan Pablo Berdejo]

I think you miss the spaces .....

Michael A. Peters wrote:

>Windows was installed as the master drive.
>Due to issues with Fedora C2T1 installer - I wanted to easily detach the
>windows drive whenever installing a linux distro. To facilitate that - I
>made the XP drive be the slave - and use a boot loader on a floppy
>called "gag" to boot windows, as it can switch the drive letters so the
>XP thinks it is still on C:\ and doesn't have a heart attack.
>
>That works - but I'd rather not have to insert a floppy every time I
>want to boot windows, I'd rather do it from grub.
>
>I tried adding the following to grub - which I thought would work
>(switching drive letters) based upon the documentation - but it doesn't
>seem to:
>
>title Windows XP
>        map (hd0)(hd1)         <- SPACE BETWEEN |(hd0) and (hd1)  |
>        map (hd1)(hd0)         <- SPACE BETWEEN (hd1) and (hd0) ;)
>        rootnoverify (hd0,0)
>        chainloader +1
>
>Anyone know why?
>Shout the rootnoverify line refer to (hd1,0) even though I already
>have used map to switch them?
>
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