grub.conf help (w/ XP)

[Michael A. Peters]

Thanks! Worked perfectly.

On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 05:12, Marcel J.E. Mol wrote:
> This is what I use for such cases:
> 
> title DOS
>         map (hd0) (hd1)
>         map (hd1) (hd0)
>         rootnoverify (hd1,0)
>         makeactive
>         chainloader +1
>         boot
> 
> Note the extra makeactive and boot lines...
> 
> -Marcel
> 
> On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 04:28:35AM -0800, 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)
> >         map (hd1)(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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