On Jan 10, 2008 3:58 PM, Derek Broughton <<a href="mailto:news@pointerstop.ca">news@pointerstop.ca</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Windows doesn't like _thinking_ it's not on the first partition (suddenly<br>realizing that this is _not_ true of Vista - as mine happily boots a form<br>of Vista for the HP recovery partition which is #2). It's easy enough to
<br>make grub tell it the appropriate lies :-)<br><br>However, I think you're right about booting it off a logical partition<br>(again, may not apply to Vista).<br><br>fwiw, if it _will_ boot from a logical, the stanza should be something like:
<br><br> title Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition<br> map (hd0,4) (hd0,0)<br><div class="Ih2E3d"> root (hd0,0)<br> makeactive<br> chainloader +1</div></blockquote><div> <br>I did this and when I tryed to boot from windows, I got "
<strong style="font-weight: normal;">Error 11: Unrecognized device string</strong>"<br>Is there any way to move my hda5 to hda2 or something like that? Maybe this will work...<br><br><br>--Kauffman<br></div></div>