Hi I tryed that and replaced the numbers for partitions in grub and&or the boot.ini . Something like "try and error". No damn way - i get the error "error 12: invalid device requested. It dont show me a bootup screen or anything that looks like a booting windows ... Device Manager Error Codes List - reports me this ... This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use. If you want to use this device, you will need to disable one of the other devices on this system. (Code 12). Recommended Resolution: Two devices have been assigned the same input/output (I/O) ports, the same interrupt, or the same Direct Memory Access channel (either by the BIOS, the operating system, or a combination of the two). This error message can also appear if the BIOS did not allocate enough resources to the device (for example, if a universal serial bus (USB) controller does not get an interrupt from the BIOS because of a corrupt Multiprocessor System (MPS) table). You can use Device Manager to determine where the conflict is and disable the conflicting device. On the General Properties tab of the device, click Troubleshoot to start the troubleshooting wizard. ----- Some words from me here --- Anyway - its a pain in my eyes but i guess that windows is not able to boot from extended partitions. Imho i have no other chance then install damn xp on a primary partition. My last chance before i give up is that i can hide hde1-3 from the system and get it so configured that windows think it run on the first partition. THANKS FOR ALL FOR YOUR HELP!
Boot into linux, mount /dev/hde6 and edit boot.ini with your favorite editor (vi, pico, etc.). Change the (1) to (6), save, reboot and choose Windows from the list. That (1) tells NTLDR where the system files are located. NTLDR is looking at partition 1 which it can't read since its a linux partition. BTW, your grub entry for Windows should have root (hd0,5).
boot.ini entry: [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(6)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
menu.lst entry: title Windoof XP root (hd0,5) makeactive chainloader +1
John
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