<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> The Wassermans wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:1257906359.6346.16.camel@Xegan" type="cite">... <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">You definitely should be able to do what you're after. What order is your BIOS set to boot in? SATA first? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I have been changing the order manually during boot-up, depending on whether I want Ubuntu or Windows. But I would prefer to have it run selectively from the Sata disk. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">If it's booting from SATA first, then your SATA drive should be (hd0) as far as grub is concerned, and (hd1) should be PATA, although this may not hold true for all BIOSes - i'm not sure whether the order is determined reliably. On my system, it's similar (Ubuntu on SATA, Windows on PATA), but because it books first from PATA, the drive numbers are the other way around. The relevant parts of my /boot/grub/menu.lst entries look like this: </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">I would appreciate it if you would be good enough to have a look at my version of the menu.lst which follows here:- ## ## End Default Options ## title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-22-generic root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-22-generic root=UUID=7a6224b7-43dd-44f1-9615-9fe469473b8f ro quiet splash initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-22-generic quiet ... ### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST ... # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS # on /dev/sda1 title Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition root (hd0,0) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 ----------8<---------- Er, What does "8<" mean? </pre> </blockquote> It's an old-fashioned pair of scissors - indicating to cut here.  :-) I think the only problem with your Windows entry is that it's pointing at the same drive as your Linux install.  I would try hd1 instead of hd0. Paul </body> </html>