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I have been having a hard time with dualbooting and i think this should work

i have been having a hard time dual booting linux and win xp pro, i found something that looks like a fix. so i did this...
this is my new menu.lst please tell me if it will mess up my boot before i replace it thank you

Code:

timeout 10

color black/cyan yellow/cyan

default 0



title linux

kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 devfs=mount acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda5

initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img



title 263-7

kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.3-7mdk root=/dev/hda1 devfs=mount acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda5

initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd-2.6.3-7mdk.img



title failsafe

kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 failsafe acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda5 devfs=nomount

initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img



title floppy

root (fd0)

chainloader +1



title Windows XP Pro

map (hd0) (hd1)

map (hd1) (hd0)

rootnoverify (hd1,0)

chainloader +1

though that is from menu.lst in /boot/grub
in the thinks that i read it saids that it should be in grub.conf though i can find it ... where should i look... i am running grub-0.95

I don't know if Mandrake uses grub.conf or menu.lst. SuSE uses /boot/grub/menu.lst; RedHat based distros use grub.conf.

For the XP config, you may need to add 'makeactive' before it will work.

... i have /boot/grub/menu.lst. if is accually is what that is a copy of... so should i be fine if it is like this for windows than

Code:

title Windows XP Pro

map (hd0) (hd1)

map (hd1) (hd0)

rootnoverify (hd1,0)

makeactive

chainloader +1