Re: windows XP NTFS\redhat 7.2

[Tom Lane]

Hans Deragon <address@hidden> writes:
>    Notice the makeactive.  I do not remember what it does (well it makes 
> the selected partition active but what does that mean?) and noticed that 
> this is missing in your grub.conf.  Might that be the missing piece?

Thanks for the suggestion, but that's not it; the makeactive step fails
on my setup, probably because the WinXP partition is not a primary
partition.  I'm currently reinstalling WinXP into a primary partition
to see if that helps...

                        regards, tom lane