On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:37:52 -0500 Dave Witbrodt <dawitbro@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > WinXP partition has to be on the "first" drive. The machine I'm > writing this email on has, at times, had WinXP on the second drive; to > accomplish this trick you need to lie to the BIOS using the 'map' > feature of GRUB. If you only have 2 IDE hard drives, you'd do it > something like this: > > map (hd0) (hd1) > map (hd1) (hd0) > > This trick the BIOS (and WinXP) into thinking its on drive C:. I do this same thing with my XP install on /dev/hdb1 and lilo and it works great. In the event your mapping doesn't work... I recommend you REMOVE your /dev/hda, move the /dev/hdb over to where /dev/hda was, making it /dev/hda. Then get out your windows cd, or recovery disk or whatever malarkey you've got and fix it. There are a couple tools you can use to fix the boot, if its actually broken. Then use the map trick and shuffle you're disks back around and enjoy. A
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