Hey.

I recently installed debian with GRUB. And i have installed it on WinXP Disc 0. I have got WinXP installed on Disk 2(whole disk). I want to boot into WinXP from GRUB. How can i do it manually? (Manually add in the booting, i know where the list is (/boot/grub/menu.lst) but, i dont know how to add in WinXP and it's weird HD booting :P)

Please post your fdisk -l and /boot/grub/menu.lst. I do not doubt what you are saying but I have seen numerous threads lately with grub problems that will have numerous posts before they find out that they have five other distros or three or more hds or have swapped the boot order of the hd.

fdisk -l :-

Disk /dev/hda: 41.1 GB, 41110142976 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4998 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 4787 38451546 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 4788 4998 1694857+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 4788 4998 1694826 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/hdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 1175 9438156 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb2 1176 30401 234757845 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdb5 1176 6373 41752903 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb6 6374 11357 40033948 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb7 * 11358 30352 152577305+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb8 30353 30401 393561 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/hdd: 20.4 GB, 20490559488 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2491 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdd1 * 1 2490 20000893+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

/boot/grub/menu.lst :

title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-486
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-486 root=/dev/hda1 ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-4-486
savedefault

title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-486 (single-user mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-486 root=/dev/hda1 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-4-486
savedefault

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title Other operating systems:
root

# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/hdd1
title Microsoft Windows XP Professional
root (hd1,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1
boot

We need to make windows think that it is first in the boot order by using

title Microsoft Windows XP Professional
root (hd1,0)
map (hd1) (hd0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
chainloader +1
makeactive
boot