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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