try universal boot cd with ranish partition editor, make the third partition executable and then reboot and use:
title windows root(hd0,2) chainloader +1 and that should start windows xp without any problem. 2007/10/30, Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sunday 28 Oct 2007, 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. > > Apologies - I meant NTFS for the XP partition, of course. > > -- > Rgds > Peter. > Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- dott. ing. beso
