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Originally posted by sicone
I need help re-configuring grub ,it wont boot my xp hard drive.It is on a seperate hard drive with fat32 ,I can mount it when I am booted into linux but I cant boot from to it without
unhooking my *nix HD I attempted to edit the grub boot chainloader ...but I didnt know what i was doing soo...any help
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Edit the following file: /boot/grub/menu.lst
and add:
title windows
root (hd1,0)
map (0x81) (0x80)
map (0x80) (0x81)
makeactive
chainloader +1
here is part of mine:
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timeout 10
color black/cyan yellow/cyan
i18n (hd0,0)/grub/messages
keytable (hd0,0)/us.klt
altconfigfile (hd0,0)/grub/menu.once
default 3
title gnu/linux
kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi vga=788
#this is the line that tells grub to boot the 2nd harddrive
# and lie to windows that
#it is the 1st drive
title windows
root (hd1,0)
map (0x81) (0x80)
map (0x80) (0x81)
makeactive
chainloader +1
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Make a copy of this file before you modify it (cp menu.lst menu.lst.old)
Also is a good idea to put comments into the file where you made modifications
Grub is actually very easy to use & modify. If you have any boot floppies you made you might want to update your changes to this file also.