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Old 25th December 2004, 04:57 AM
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getting grub to boot into win xp

here's how i have my system set up:

-win xp installed on hda
-fc3 installed on hdb

the grub bootloader is installed in the MBR of the second drive(hdb) so in the BIOS i have my computer set up to boot from this drive. the problem is that when i try to boot windows through grub, it will not boot. the only way to get it to work is to go back into the BIOS and set it to boot from the windows drive, and then it boots fine but i can't get to fedora this way.

i figure the problem is with the grub config file. under windows xp i have:

root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

i'm guessing this is the problem, but i don't know what i should have there. can anyone help?
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Old 25th December 2004, 06:31 AM
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Open terminal and edit the grub by using these lines:
Code:
title Windows XP
               map (hd0) (hd1)
               map (hd1) (hd0)
               rootnoverify (hd1,0)
               chainloader +1
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Old 25th December 2004, 11:36 PM
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that worked, thanks
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Old 25th December 2004, 11:38 PM
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Cool....as I always say "just another fc happy user".
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