Configurin GRUB or Installin LiLO

[Jeff Vian]

On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 10:30, zaca1 at click21.com.br wrote:
> >You did not supply enough information to provide
> >definitive help.
> >(Check out
> >http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.ht
> >ml)
> >
> >Did you perhaps add the disk on which you
> >installed Fedora as master and
> >move the original XP disk to be the secondary
> >disk?	If so, you will
> >need to fool XP into thinking it is still on the
> >first disk.  A grub
> >stanza along these lines should work:
> >
> >title Windows XP
> >	 map (hd1) (hd0)
> >	 map (hd0) (hd1)
> >	 rootnoverify (hd1,0)
> >	 chainloader +1
> 
> Thats it! The WinXP hard disk is slave (hdb) of Fedora hard disk(hda). Ill try to make the changes you wrote. 
> I have read about "hard disk geometry as reported in the partition table to be altered during installation". Do you think it's the problem?
> 

Windows will not boot unless it thinks it is the first hard disk.
The info above may fool it into booting, or you may need to move it back
to master.

The geometry may be at issue, but this is the first hurdle.