Re: [Bug-grub] GRUB and Windows XP

[Jason Thomas]

install grub into /dev/hda not /dev/hda1 then use this menu entry for
winXP

title XP
root (hd0,2)
makeactive
chainloader +1

and probably this one for linux, or something similiar:

title linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 ro


On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 10:48:32AM +0600, Chamindu Ruwin Munasinghe wrote:
> Hi , 
>       I dont know weather this is the correct place to ask this question.
> If not please indicate where i can post this. 
> 
>       My problem is like this , my machine had red hat linux 8.0 installed
> on the first partition of my disk. then i installed windows xp onto a new
> partition. now the partitions are like this
>       1 - linux 
>       2 - linux swap
>       3 - NTFS (XP)
> the windows xp setup has marked the 3rd partition as the active one. after
> the xp installation. i used the linux rescue mod to make partition 1 active
> again and install grub ( grub-install /dev/hda1) now how can i make a boot
> menu entry to boot onto Windows XP