try universal boot cd with ranish partition editor, make the third partition executable and then reboot and use:
title windows
root(hd0,2)
chainloader +1
and that should start windows xp without any problem.
2007/10/30, Peter Humphrey <prh@gotadsl.co.uk>:
On Sunday 28 Oct 2007, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Sunday 28 Oct 2007, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
> > I'd say the second partition is only a problem if the first is "seen"
> > by Winblow - that is if it has any filesystem readable by it.
>
> I have /dev/hda1 ext2, /dev/hda2 ext2, /dev/hda3 HPFS, then various
> logical partitions up to /dev/hda12. /dev/hda4 is the extended partition.
> Grub cannot start Win XP. I don't see how that fits this theory.
Apologies - I meant NTFS for the XP partition, of course.
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