Dual boot sata ide

Hello, guys.

I have a sata disk that was occupied by XP and I added a ide drive
containing ubuntu. The idea was to add this ide to windows boot.ini
using linux.bin produced by dd if=linux.bin..., since this drive goes
in and out of the box. I used boot floppy to get into the ubuntu and
successfully called the configfile using:

configfile (hd1,0)/boot/grub/menu.lst

When the menu loaded it produced an error since root is at (hd1,0),
while menu.lst searched for (hd0,0). Edited the entry and I was good to
go.
When in terminal I checked the drive and it said it is located at
/dev/hda1, while XP is on /dev/sda1. I reinstalled grub to this
/dev/hda1 location and made a dd if=linux.bin of=/dev/hda1... which was
copied to c:\

When booting the XP menu goes up, but after calling Linux drive all I
get is GRUB and blinking _. XP works normaly.

Order in bios is 1st sata, 2nd ide. If I change the order the grub pops
up perfectly, but then the XP fails.

The question is how to make a linux.bin to load grub from XP when
obviously drives change order.

devices.map
/dev/sda (hd0,0)
/dev/hda (hd1,0)

menu.lst
all entries call (hd1,0)

This was also posted on ubuntu forums, but I need an answer as soon as
possible.
Thanks.

.

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