GRUB to boot other disks

[Hadders]

David Timms wrote:
> Hadders wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>  I'm just wondering if I can use Grub to boot another disk.
>>
>> I've got my primary boot drive as a RAID container. After install 
>> I've plugged back in /dev/hda and /dev/hdb (paranoid in case 
>> something went wrong) and now I'd like to have Grub which was 
>> installed onto the MBR of the container boot /dev/hda partition (0), 
>> which is Windows XP.
>>
>> I thought I could just go
>> rootnoverify(hd1,0)
>> chainloader +1
> I tink (their4 I am :) that hd1 is second disk, but to tell for sure:
> rootnoverify (hd0,0)/ {tab to show possible completions}
> You should see files that you expect to find {for ext3 etc}.
>
> There is also a command to swap two drives, that helps people trying 
> to boot sooky win os's.
>
> DaveT.
>
Yeah, it was hd1,x  but then I've broken stuff.. see my new thread.