Re: [gentoo-user] Grub won't boot SATA WinXP disk

[maxim wexler <blissfix@yahoo.com>]

I've done this on SATA and IDE drives and combos of
the same and I never got XP to boot unless I used
rootnoverify (hd0,0). Macro$haft insists on being
first in my experience. FWIW.

Make a grub boot disk(if you haven't already) and
practice until you find the proper sequence of
commands; then you can put them into a conf file and
do a grub-install. I'd do that first. A false move
could wipe out your MBR.

As I recall I completey destroyed the boot partition
on a brand new HD while fumbling with GRUB. But it was
still under warranty "Whew!"

--- mattr@erols.com wrote:

> I just put in a SATA drive into an otherwise PATA
> machine.  I put Windows XP 
> on the new drive.  I added the following to my
> grub.conf:
> 
> title=Windows XP
> rootnoverify (hd2,0)
> makeactive
> chainloader +1
> 
> but when I tell grub to boot this item, I get an
> otherwise blank screen with 
> the text:
> 
> rootnoverify (hd2,0)
> makeactive
> chainloader +1
> 
> and nothing else happens.
> 
> I have never had difficulty getting grub to play
> with Windows in the past, but 
> that was always with PATA hardware.
> 
> I have tried editing the grub configuration at boot
> time to see if grub 
> doesn't like my drive number or something.  I used
> the TAB autocompletion 
> feature which lists three disks (hd0, hd1, and hd2).
>  The former two are 
> definitely my raid array based on the number of
> partitions they contain.  The 
> latter has only one partition (according to grub's
> TAB autocompletion) which 
> is as it should be given that it is obviously the
> Windows disk.
> 
> I'm at a loss here.  Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.  I'm afraid I have 
> to use my BIOS to switch boot disks until I resolve
> this.
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> 
> 


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