Re: [SLE] Problem booting Win XP from boot window...

15 Jun 2003

      Hi,

On Sunday 15 June 2003 10:56 am, Ian David Laws wrote:
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Windows cannot boot from the 2nd harddrive windows needs to be hda and not
hdb With Linux it does not really matter.
Ian
With Grub you can fool Windows into thinking it is using the first hard disk. 
I have a small Win98 Fat 32 partition on hdb1. My /boot/grub/menu.lst entry 
for Windows reads:

title windows
    map (hd0) (hd1)
    map (hd1) (hd0)
    rootnoverify (hd1,0)
    makeactive
    chainloader +1
    boot

You could try this for XP. The above works for me and Win98. I think there is 
a similar option for Lilo, too.

HTH,

Jason