The Grub

Bob Nielsen nielsen at oz.net
Fri Aug 12 05:00:02 UTC 2005


On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 06:30:21PM -0700, Caleb Metheny wrote:
> I tried working this problem out in the IRC but after a lot of help I
> was suggested to also come here.
> 
> So here is the problem...
> 
> When I get to the Grub menu and select to boot with WinXP. It won't
> boot I have waited 20min+ to see if it would boot but it would not. I
> then asked teh IRC channel for help, and I was suggested to try
> (hd3,1). That gave me error 21. I also tried doing (hd1,1) with that I
> get error 13.
> 
> The only way I get WinXP to boot is through the BIOS by changing which
> HDD boots first. HDD-0 gets me the GRUB, and HDD-1 will get me into
> windows.

Windows wants to boot from the first disk.  If it is on hdd, you need to 
fool it by using the map parameter with grub:

I have the following in /boot/grub/menu.lst:

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





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