Re: [opensuse] GRUB will not boot up second windows partition



On Jan 31, 2008 5:08 PM, Marc Chamberlin <marc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks Steve for your suggestion... Eventually I will delete this old
XP partition but first I need to recover many files from it an move them
over to the new XP partition. This old XP partition seems to be
readable, just not bootable. So I want to hang on to it long enough to
accomplish that first..


Let me check if I understood correctly ... you have now a master disk
with suse and a slave disk with XP, and you want to boot with grub, if
so ... is simply as map the secondary device as a primary device, so
windows will think it's on the first disk.
For instance:

title Windows
map (hd1) (hd0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader (hd1,0)+1

where hd1 is the slave (XP device) disk and hd0 the suse disk.

hope it helps

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