RE: I can't boot Windows XP with Grub loader.

From: Edward Croft (ecroft_at_openratings.com)
Date: 09/30/03

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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 13:48:08 -0400

    On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 13:37, Otto Haliburton wrote:
    > You are saying here that if it was the C:\ drive(confusing). I think that
    > win98, winME etc. aren't able to configure with any drive letter other than
    > c, but winNT and win2k can. I don't know that winXP can so I hope that what
    > you are saying is true.
    >
    Let me clarify. When I first had this box, it was a Win98 box that was
    upgraded to a Win2k box. When I decided that I wanted Linux on the
    system, rather than try to fiddle more room out of the current drive, I
    used a spare hard drive I had. I installed that as the primary and the
    Windows drive as the slave. Then in grub.conf, I used the map command so
    that Windows would still think it was the C: drive. Another option was
    to edit the c:\boot.ini file on Win2k and make changes to the drive and
    partition info, but this was much easier. I also had set aside a small
    partition on the slave for FAT. This way, I can mount the FAT drive from
    either the Linux side or the Win2k side. This allows for moving files
    between the systems since Linux can't write to an NTFS mounted
    filesystem. (Supposedly, you can make changes in the kernel to allow for
    NTFS mounts read-only, but why bother if you can't write.)

    My second system was a little easier as it was a fresh system that I
    built. I bought a large hard drive and split the drive between the
    systems and installed XP first. Since they are both on the same drive,
    no issues with the mapping.

    Just a little helpful hint, from your Uncle Ed! 

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