maxim wexler wrote: > Yee-hah! > > Finally, after about 6 weeks cursing and ripping out > my few remaining hairs, I got gentoo to boot off the > HD w/ NO errors! I'm soooo stoked! I'm using a 1.1Gig > drive as /dev/hda for boot duty, which seems like a > waste, but I'm sure I can find something to put on all > that extra space. > > Only problem: WinXP won't boot. The lines in grub.conf > are: > > title Window NT / Windows 95 boot menu > rootnoverify (hd1,0) > makeactive > chainloader +1 > > I'm sure that's correct: /dev/hdb, first partition. > It mounts OK and all the files are intact, so ... > > Anyways, thanks to all for your support and > encouragement. > > -mw >
Congrats :-) Maybe you can use grub's "map" feature to perform a virtual swap between your first and second hard drive. http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/DOS-Windows.html#DOS%2fWindows title Window NT / Windows 95 boot menu rootnoverify (hd1,0) makeactive map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) chainloader +1 Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
