Tom Lane writes: [...] > > I am not sure why GRUB can chain to WinXP's boot code when WinXP is in a > primary partition, but not when it's in a logical partition. Might be > something for the GRUB maintainers to look into.
Have you tried installing WinXP into a logical partition as you had originally done so and then found that you could subsequently boot into WinXP using only standard M$ MBR supplied by WinXP? If your answer to my question is no, then how do you expect to get GRUB to boot WinXP in a configuration when WinXP cannot even boot itself? > > I'm also not sure exactly what the conditions are under which WinXP's > installer will create a logical rather than primary partition for > WinXP. But preallocating all four primary partition slots, as I did > this time, seems to prevent that from happening. I don't know WinXP, but I am familiar with WinNT and Win2000 - they both require that ntloader live in a primary FAT or NTFS partition on the first hard drive. In my case, I installed WinNT into a logical partition, and WinNT installed its ntloader into my (primary) DOS FAT partition. -- Jeff Sheinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
