SATA confusion Solved

[Karl Larsen]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> 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
>
>
>   
    It works fine B.J. I will add that secret to my collection and also 
see if it is in man grub. I think when I saw your answer I had seen it 
there.

    Now someday I will spend enough time to find a driver for the 
ethernet card to the Internet and and get the needed nVidia drivers :-)

Karl




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