On Sunday 28 October 2007 12:44:42 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 28 Oct 2007, Thierry de Coulon wrote: > > I'd say the second partition is only a problem if the first is "seen" by > > Winblow - that is if it has any filesystem readable by it. > > I have /dev/hda1 ext2, /dev/hda2 ext2, /dev/hda3 HPFS, then various logical > partitions up to /dev/hda12. /dev/hda4 is the extended partition. Grub > cannot start Win XP. I don't see how that fits this theory. > > -- > Rgds > Peter. > Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93
I believe the partition number is not really important, as long as: - the partition is set as bootable (grub might be able to do that automagically) - all the win boot files reside fully inside the first 1024 cylinders of the drive (so preferably: the partition itself should start and end in those first 1024 cyls.) or something to that effect. Thanks, Mathieu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
