I lost Windows

[John Summerfield]

Dylan Graham wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote:
>> I just typed in to the grub command line:
>> chainloader (hd0,0)+1
>> boot
> 
> I noticed that this is entered automatically (despite the bug) during 
> the install if you add another OS during the grub configuration and 
> point it at the NTFS partition.
> 
> 
> title Windows XP
>         rootnoverify (hd0,0)
>         makeactive
>         chainloader  +1
> 


That is close to what I expected to happen, twice, one for each NTFS 
partition (I think both boot).

I don't recall every having to do anything special before, and I;m not 
going to reinstall on that box just to find out, and it's the only 
64-bit CPU I have.

fwiw I don't think your code is precisely right: some years ago, some 
stirrer on one of the RHL 7.x lists muttered that adding an entry 
"windows" might be a breach of trademark, and how do we know it's 
windows and not something else, maybe DOS, maybe OS/2 (NTFS and HPFS use 
the same partition type; really it means "installable filesystem").

The result, after some discussion, was a change to call it "other" or 
some such.



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Cheers
John

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