Re: Can Grub start Windows XP from "other" partition

[Ulf Zibis]

Hi Leslie,

that sounds good, thanks for your quick answer.

Just to avoid some bad experience on my existing installation, are you really sure, that Windows will see the other not 1. partition, from which it is started, as C:, even from a logical partition?

Again thanks,

Ulf

Am 17.11.2012 02:23, schrieb Leslie S Satenstein:

YES.

When you execute grub2, it surveys all the disks and all the partitions and lists all the operating systems in a list. You may set the default to the operating system of choice.

The command is grub.mkconfig  (or grub-mkconfig)  put the output of mkconfig to /tmp ans use an editor to review it

Regards

 Leslie

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--- On Fri, 11/16/12, Ulf Zibis <address@hidden> wrote:

From: Ulf Zibis <address@hidden>
Subject: Can Grub start Windows XP from "other" partition
To: address@hidden
Date: Friday, November 16, 2012, 7:10 PM

Hi,

I have an old bad running WinXP installation, which was installed on partition 1 as C:.
Now I want to move this installation to another partition and make a fresh WinXP installation on partition 1.
For some reasons, I want to have the possibility to run the old installation later. I believe, that I can run it, if I manually "hide" the 1. partition and mark the 2. as active/boot, so Windows will guess the 2. partition as C:.
I Grub smart enough to do that for me when booting the old Windows partition from the 2. partition?

Ideally I would like to move the old WinXP installation to a "logical" partition. Would that also work?
So my preferred partitioning would be like:
Primary partition 1: new Windows XP installation
Primary partition 2: Thinkpad Recovery (physically at the end of the of the harddrive)
Primary partition 3: Ubuntu
Extended partition 4:
Logical partition 5: Ubuntu swap
Logical partition 6: Data
Logical partition 7: Backup
Logical partition 8: old bad Windows XP installation (Copy from originally C:)

Thanks for hints,

-Ulf


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