Re: RFE: Grub should provide option to swap partition order

2013-02-11 Thread Ulf Zibis
Am 01.02.2013 22:27, schrieb Ulf Zibis: HOW TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM without - tweak registry from Windows(2), which requires expert knowledge and special tools to tweak it offline? - manually swap the physical(1,2) in the partition table entries order and run /update-grub/ after? (in the

Re: RFE: Grub should provide option to swap partition order

2013-02-11 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 11.02.2013 21:49, Ulf Zibis wrote: Am 01.02.2013 22:27, schrieb Ulf Zibis: HOW TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM without - tweak registry from Windows(2), which requires expert knowledge and special tools to tweak it offline? - manually swap the physical(1,2) in the partition table entries order

Re: RFE: Grub should provide option to swap partition order

2013-02-01 Thread Ulf Zibis
Hi Vladimir, thanks for your response. As I'm not subscribed to this list, please CC me while answering, e.g. by Reply all. Am 01.02.2013 08:02, schrieb Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko: On 29.01.2013 22:56, Ulf Zibis wrote: Now I've found a possibility to have 2 WinXP installations,

Re: RFE: Grub should provide option to swap partition order

2013-01-31 Thread Ulf Zibis
Hi Felix, I allow to remember, that I'm not subscribed to this list. By chance I saw your answer in the archive http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-grub/2012-11/msg00048.html. So please cc me while answering, e.g. by Reply all. Thanks for your information, see my comments/questions below

Re: RFE: Grub should provide option to swap partition order

2013-01-31 Thread Felix Miata
On 2013-02-01 01:30 (GMT+0100) Ulf Zibis composed: The trick is, I only moved it physically, from start cyl. 0+ to start cyl. 16418, but not logically, by swapping the entries in the partition table. The OLD Windows is still on sda1 after the move + swap partition table entries, so I'm freed

RFE: Grub should provide option to swap partition order

2013-01-29 Thread Ulf Zibis
Hi all, as I'm not subscribed to this list, please *CC me* while answering, e.g. by Reply all. Maybe you have noticed the discussion on help-gr...@gnu.org : Can Grub start Windows XP from other partition Now I've found a possibility to have 2 WinXP installations, both originally installed on

Re: RFE: Grub should provide option to swap partition order

2013-01-29 Thread Felix Miata
On 2013-01-29 22:56 (GMT+0100) Ulf Zibis composed: Now I've found a possibility to have 2 WinXP installations, both originally installed on C:, alternatively running on one disk. As I still was unable to boot a Windows by Grub from a logical partition (only NTLDR can do that, but in my case