[ubuntu-uk] dual boot

[Michael Holloway]

Norman.

is suspect something the following would work, but i dont have a dual
boot machine around to have a look at the settings...


title Windows
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1


If not, can you type
"sudo fdisk -l"
in your terminal and paste it in a reply. 


cheers,
michael




On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 13:12 +0000, norman wrote:
> Old nuisance is here again - Happy New Year - I had a sata hdd for
> Christmas on to which I installed Win XP Pro having first disconnected
> the Ubuntu hdd. Then, with both drives connected I confirmed that the
> Ubuntu drive is hd0 and the Windows drive is hd1. At the end of menu.lst
> in Grub folder I added at the very end:-
> 
> title Windows
> map (hd0) (hd1)
> map (hd1) (hd0)
> rootverify (hd1,hd0)
> chainloader 
> 
> On starting to boot I pressed esc and, at the bottom of the list, there
> was Windows. I am winning I thought so, after selected Windows I pressed
> enter and saw what I had entered in menu.lst and an error message:-
> 
> Invalid or unsupported executable format.
> 
> I seem to have done something wrong and hope that some kind reader can
> point me in the right direction, please.
> 
> Norman
> 
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