You are right Randal grub cannot work unless you write (hd0,4) in this case. Windows requires a primary drive to boot from, from what I have read. And before I nstalled crunchbang, it had a primary partition to boot from. The xp on (hd0,1) was piggybacking off of the primay partittion (hd0,0). Nevertheless, I will try (hd0,4) and let you know what happens. If it turns out that I am wrong, I won't be upset. I'm just basing my conclusions on what I have read.
Thanks On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Randall Whitman <[email protected]>wrote: > > root (hd0,1) > > makeactive > > chainloader +1 > > and I commented out the hidemenu entry > > I also tried (hd0,5) Neither worked. > > It says (hd0,1) because windows is on the second partition, > > which is really hd5 because it is and extended partition. > > Try (hd0,4) - I think grub counts 0-based whereas partition table > counts 1-based - yes, according to the comments in my /boot/grub/menu.lst . > > > It didn't work, and me thinks it's > > because xp has to be a primary partition. > > That may be. Furthermore, if you want to dual-boot MS-Win-XP & Linux, > i'd put Win-XP on /dev/hda1 and install Win-XP first, Linux second. > > =========== > > # (excerpt from /boot/grub/menu.lst) > > # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing > # linux installation on /dev/sda10. > title linux-nonfb (on /dev/sda10) > root (hd0,9) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda10 splash=silent > resume=/dev/hda1 > initrd /boot/initrd.img > savedefault > boot > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >
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