Re: Reliably boot XP from Primary Slave disk?
From: imotgm (imotgm_REM__at_invalid-yahoo.com)
Date: 03/13/05
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Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 08:16:35 GMT
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 14:45:36 -0800, Mike Mol wrote:
>> > # WinXP Method 3
>> > title Windows XP Pro 3
>> > map (hd0) (hd1)
>> > map (hd1) (hd0)
>> > root (hd1,0)
>> > makeactive
>> > chainloader +1
>>
>> I don't know if it makes a difference, but mine looks like this;
>>
>> title Windows
>> root (hd1,0)
>> map (hd1) (hd0)
>> map (hd0) (hd1)
>> makeactive
>> chainloader +1
>
> Curious. I wonder if the order of the "root" keyword makes any
> difference.
That, and the two map lines are reversed. May not make any difference, but
worth trying.
>> http://tinyurl.com/6chyn
>>
>> shows how some of my stanzas look in /boot/grub/menu.lst. If you
> check out
>> the indicated threads, to see the full context, you should get it
> working.
>
> Neat.
>
>>
>> Almost an afterthought; I've never seen anyone have a problem with
>> booting Windows from the primary slave position, but it might be a
>> problem specific to the hard drive, or motherboard, itself. Could you
>> rearrange your cables and jumpers to make it the master on the second IDE
>> channel? All my hard drives are set as master, and my CD-RW and DVD-DL are
>> both slaves, and as I've said, no problems with this setup on three
>> machines, all different, for three+ years.
>
> Possibly. It'd require moving the drive around in the case, though.
> But that's not impossible. It's an old Compaq Presario 5000 series
> case. The only thing I've found impossible, so far, is having an IDE
> device on the lower 3.5" bay and the upper 5.25" bay use the same IDE
> cable. But I don't have a working drive in the upper 5.25" bay now.
Might be worth looking at a removable drive bay, if all else fails.
CompUSA has some fairly nice units for $20.00, rack and drawer.
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
You're welcome. Post back to let us know how it's working out. ;-)
-- imotgm
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