SATA confusion

[Karl Larsen]

B.J. McClure wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 15:53 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>>     I was able to install WindowsXT on a SATA drive. This Ubuntu is on 
>> the other IDE drive. To get windows to load I had to disable the IDE 
>> drive. When windows was loaded I could not get to Grub. So I unplugged 
>> power to the SATA drive and again Grub worked as expected.
>>
>>     Today I wanted to dual boot with windows. So I plugged in the SATA 
>> drive and with the Ubuntu live cd in operation I looked with fdisk and I 
>> had a /dev/hda which is the IDE and /dev/sba which is the SATA drive.
>>
>>     I put the grub setup on (hd0) and so with both drives working grub 
>> works. But for some reason I cannot get windows to boot. I am afraid 
>> there is no (hd??) that fits the SATA /dev/sda1 which is where it is.
>>
>>     Any ideas?
>>
>> Karl
>>     
>
> title Windows XP professional
> 	map (hd0) (hd1)
> 	map (hd1) (hd0)
> 	rootnoverify (hd1,0)
> 	chainloader +1
>
> B.J.
> CentOS 5.0, Linux 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 x86_64 19:26:05 up 1 day, 5:19, 0
> users, load average: 0.30, 0.07, 0.03
>
>
>   
Thanks B.J. I will try that!

Karl


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