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OK, I have Debian on one hdd (master) and XP on another. XP takes up the whole HDD, and it boots fine (I installed it without my Debian HDD hooked up.) This is what my Grub file looks like:
You need only one entry for windows. Windows refuses to boot unless it's on the first partition of the primary drive. However, it's possible to tell it a little white lie, and it will boot happily.
Change this:
itle Windoze XP
root (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
to this (with included white lie):
itle Windoze XP
root (hd1,0)
map (hd0,0) (hd1,0)
map (hd1,0) (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
Haha-I love the "little white lie". It seems Microsloth Windoze won't run without a lie here and there...I knew I only needed one option in Grub, I just copied and pasted various lines from previous posts to see if they worked.
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