Gutsy/Windows Dual Boot

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Tue Oct 2 02:51:09 UTC 2007


On 10/01/2007 07:43 PM, Shawn McCuan wrote:
> I dont know if you've messed with grub before, but keep in mind that the 
> grub location hd0,0 is the way to write hda1. the second partition would be 
> at hd0,1 , etc.

<quote>
hda1,0 but I have them remapped
</quote>

On that system I have the drives remapped;

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

and it works just fine.


> 
> 
>>
>> At the end of /boot/grub/menu.lst:
>>
>> # Diviver to separate the menu items below form the Debian ones
>> title Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
>> root (hd0,0)
>> savedefault
>> makeactive
>> chainloader +1
>>
>> Change title to whatever flavor of Windows version you have, change root
>> to where the boot partition is (for example, on my other system it is
>> hda1,0 but I have them remapped).
>>
>>
> 
> 






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