Ok, so I have 3 drives
-  drive 1: kubuntu
- drive 2: data disk
- drive 3: XP

and wanted to have grub load xp.  So my first idea was (being new to this) an entry like:

title Windows XP
root (hd2,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1


But that just did not want to do anything.

Next, after googling A LOT, I found this:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/valhalla-list/2003-February/msg00732.html

So, I should change it to:

        map (hd0) (hd2)
        map (hd2) (hd0)
        rootnoverify (hd0,0)
        chainloader +1

and it worked NOT...

But it pointed me in the right direction.  The key indeed is to let XP think it's the first hd.  But after doing the remapping, grub still sees the original layout, so the above code should be

        map (hd0) (hd2)
        map (hd2) (hd0)
        rootnoverify (hd2,0)
        chainloader +1

And indeed, that finally worked....

17-08-2008 om 16:42 geschreven door Lieven Bogaert