Boot Windows XP from high block number?
Rangeen Basu
sherry151 at gmail.com
Sat Mar 21 06:13:13 UTC 2009
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh at pacbell.net> wrote:
> I have installed Linux and Windows XP on my hard drive and am trying to
> set up a dual boot. Unfortunately XP is installed at a high sector,
> namely block 204438565. The partition table starts:
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 63 2040254 1020096 83 Linux
> /dev/sda2 2040255 104438564 51199155 83 Linux
> /dev/sda3 * 104438565 206836874 51199155 b W95 FAT32
> ...
>
> I have set up grub.conf as follows:
>
> ...
> title Windows
> rootnoverify (hd0,2)
> chainloader +1
>
> The grub initialization screen starts OK, but when I select Windows,
> grub fails with a disk read error.
>
> Questions:
>
> (1) Is grub.conf set up right for this partition table?
>
> (2) Is it possible to boot XP at this location, or do I have to
> reinstall Linux and XP with their partition reversed, so as to get the
> XP partition to a smaller block number?
>
> (3) Is there some quicker way to get the partitions reversed other than
> reinstallation?
>
I read somewhere that windows needs to be the first partition to boot
properly. So you may try installing windows at hd0,0 and try again.
Regards
--
Rangeen Basu Roy Chowdhury
Fedora Ambassador
sherry151 at gmail.com
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