Boot Windows Xp from Second HD

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spiv · Post by **spiv** » Sat Oct 04, 2003 6:54 am

I have problems to boot XP from a second HD with grub I have read the man and info pages with no results.
fdisk print from hdb:

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 Device    Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1   *           1        1785    14337981    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA) main 
/dev/hdb2            1786        2434     5213092+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA) data

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

I have changed the rootnoverify to root and from (hd1,0) to (hd0,0) with devasting result with the last change (swaps permanently the partition tables of the hard drives and I have to restore them) so any people that has a fuctional XP in the second HD want to tell me what I am doing wrong and lent me a hand.
Oh i have tried to change the chainloader options like (hd1)+1 and (hd1,0)+1 with no results.

McFly0 · Post by **McFly0** » Sat Oct 04, 2003 8:23 am

No idea what map is but following works pretty well for me:

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

so u have to use (hd1,0)

good luck

IvD · Post by **IvD** » Sat Oct 04, 2003 1:12 pm

See link: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=18319

I guess the problem is you have no root specified.
And I don't know if it is important but makeactive belongs above chainloader + 1.