No way to boot into MS Windows hard disk
Tom Browder
tom.browder at gmail.com
Wed Feb 14 02:34:07 UTC 2007
Paul Smith wrote:
> Dear All
>
> I have two hard disks in my machine:
>
> * hda --> Fedora Core 6;
> * hdb --> Windows XP.
>
> In grub.conf, I have the following:
>
> title Windows XP
> rootnoverify (hd1,0)
> makeactive
> chainloader +1
>
> but I cannot boot into Windows XP. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Paul
>
I believe that Win XP does not work on a second drive. I think your
best bet is to swap drives and install grub in the MBR of the new
/dev/hda (old /dev/hdb). Linux will happily boot on a second drive.
-Tom
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