Configure GRUB

[Jan Kauffman]

On Jan 10, 2008 3:58 PM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:

> Windows doesn't like _thinking_ it's not on the first partition (suddenly
> realizing that this is _not_ true of Vista - as mine happily boots a form
> of Vista for the HP recovery partition which is #2).  It's easy enough to
> make grub tell it the appropriate lies :-)
>
> However, I think you're right about booting it off a logical partition
> (again, may not apply to Vista).
>
> fwiw, if it _will_ boot from a logical, the stanza should be something
> like:
>
>  title           Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
>  map             (hd0,4) (hd0,0)
>  root            (hd0,0)
>  makeactive
>  chainloader     +1
>

I did this and when I tryed to boot from windows, I got "*Error 11:
Unrecognized device string*"
Is there any way to move my hda5 to hda2 or something like that? Maybe this
will work...


--Kauffman
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