[PLUG] dual boot

Robert Kopp iconoklastic at yahoo.com
Mon May 15 04:26:27 UTC 2006



--- Vincent Yau <v_yau3 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi:
> 
> I am trying to dual boot a box between Linux and
> WinXP.
> Both OS are on separate disks (so hd0 is Linux and
> hd1 is WinXP).
> Linux side is Ubuntu.   I am using grub and my
> menu.lst
> has the normal linux boot entries plus this for the
> WinXP:
> 
>     tiitle  WinXP
>    rootnoverify (hd1,0)
>    makeactive
>    chainloader +1
> 
If "title" really is required, you might need to spell
it correctly.

You're booting from the second hard drive. I think
GRUB has another command to switch boot order, and you
may need it for Windows to work.

Robert "Tim" Kopp
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