Dual boot Windows XP and Ubuntu: XP won't boot.

[Andrew Farris]

On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 17:18 +0200, Markus Schönhaber wrote:
[snip]
> My guess would be that Windows gets confused from not being on the first
> (BIOS) disk any more as it was when installed.
> Maybe it's as easy as changing the mapping of the drives, i. e. adding
> map (hd0) (hd1)
> map (hd1) (hd0)
> to the Windows entry in GRUB's menu.lst.
> 
> If that doesn't work, what I'd do (from memory aka untested):
> - Reset the BIOS to boot from the Windows disk,
> - install GRUB in the Windows disk's MBR with root pointing to the
> appropriate partition on sdb/(hd1),
> - create an entry in GRUB's menu.lst that chainloads Windows, something like
> rootnoverify (hd0,0)
> chainloader +1
> should do if Windows is installed on the disk's first partition.

Also, make sure that the windows partition is being 'activated' by
adding the 'makeactive' line under the windows entry in your menu.lst
file. like so:

title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
makeactive

Hope that helps.


-- 
Andrew
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