GRUB does not load Windows XP

Alvin Thompson alvin-ubuntu at thompsonlogic.com
Fri Aug 26 16:30:48 UTC 2005


David M. Carney Wrote:
>Windows is a jealous mistress. It insists on being on the first
>partition of the first drive. If it's on any other partition and/or
>drive, then you have to "lie" to it to fool it into thinking it is.
>So, to make it work, you must change your Windows boot parameters in
>your /boot/grub/menu.lst to read:
> 
>title  Microsoft Windows XP Professional (or whatever)
>root	     (hd1,0)
>rootnoverify (hd1,0)
>map (hd0) (hd1)
>map (hd1) (hd0)
>chainloader  +1
> 
>David

cool! how do i set it up for windows on the second partition of the
first drive (hd0,1)? i haven't been able to boot windows in ages. of
course, i haven't missed it, either...  :)

thanks,
alvin





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