Dual boot WinXP repair (maybe a little OT)

Matthew Saltzman mjs at clemson.edu
Wed Mar 4 23:20:50 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 13:53 -0800, suvayu ali wrote:
> 2009/3/4 Matthew Saltzman <mjs at clemson.edu>:
> > I re-numbered the partitions so that /boot is sda1, Windows is sda2, and
> > the rest is sda3. There is no extended partition.
> >
> > Now WinXP won't boot.
> >
> did you change the corresponding chainload line in grub.conf ?

It's now 

        title MS WinXP Pro
        	rootnoverify (hd0,1)
        	chainloader +1

The WinXP partition is the second one, so I think that's correct.

> 
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