Just nailed my BIOS & Vista partition

[Hadders]

Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On 12/17/06, Hadders <fedora at workingwithit.com> wrote:
>> Wow! That was an interesting result from Grub, I'd never have expected
>> that, though I can't blame Grub as it was most likely my fault.
>>
>> I was trying to get it so I can boot my second hard drive, hd1 and get
>> its XP to load from Grub.
>> Choices would be Linux, Vista or XP.
>> I was in the command-line and typed
>> rootnoverify (hd1,0)
>> hide (hd0,0)
>> makeactive
>> chainloader +1
>> boot
>>
>> Made sense to me, I figured it would be all good. But!! It wasn't.
>> Instead Vista started to load (that's hd0,0), so I'm confused as to why
>> XP (hd1,0) didn't.
>> Oh well I thought, anyway, half way through the load Vista command
>> console comes up and says "autocheck program not found".... umm, okay I
>> thought, then I hear *click* *tink* and the hard drives are turning off,
>> WTF! Next thing I know the machines posting with a WIDE RANG BIOS
>> ERROR.... WTF!
>>
>> So I recovered to previous (thank you gigabyte for dual bios)...
>>
>> Okay, so Grub clearly upset Vista by "switching"/"hiding" things. But..
>> 1... why didn't that work to boot XP
>> 2... surely it was Vista that got upset and did bad bios things right...
>> there's no way Grub could have done that?!
>>
>> H
>>
>
> Well if you were in Vista when errors started pooping up, I would say
> it's Vistas' fault. That would also put you offtopic for the list
> however.
>
Yes, if I was just asking about Vista.  However, why didn't the commands 
work and boot XP off the second hard disk?