Re: [gentoo-user] Windows on a second drive?

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On 9/5/05, agl@wht.com.au <agl@wht.com.au> wrote:

> to grub.conf so it became:
> 
> title=Windows XP
> map (hd0) (hd1)
> map (hd1) (hd0)
> rootnoverify (hd1,1)
> makeactive
> chainloader +1
> 
> saved, rebooted, selected Windows and it started up. Once you know what to do,
> it's quite easy, it's the finding out what to do in the first place that is the
> problem ;) Some people mention problems about sharing or overwriting MBR's etc,
> don;t worry about it, just set everything up so that they can individually boot
> then let Grub handle everything. Any problems, bounce me an email
> 
>   Regards,
>     Andrew
> 
> p.s. I'm not sure on the partition on the rootnoverify - read up on that
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Thanks Andrew. The info looks good.

I haven't seen the makeactive command discussed in the area before.
I'll read up on that.

thanks,
Mark

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