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

[Dotan Cohen]

2009/8/17 Andrew Farris <flyindragon1 at aol.com>:
> 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.
>

I will check that, Andrew. Thanks.

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