[PLUG] Adding windows hdd to grub

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Sat Dec 28 18:14:03 UTC 2002


On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Carla Schroder wrote:

> " If you have installed DOS (or Windows) on a non-first hard disk, you
> have to use the disk swapping technique, because that OS cannot boot
> from any disks but the first one. The workaround used in GRUB is the
> command `map' (*note map::), like this:
> 
>      grub> map (hd0) (hd1)
>      grub> map (hd1) (hd0)"

  I did this with LILO, too, when I was triple-booting linux. win95 and
dos7. It works like a charm.

Rich





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