> > On Thursday 6 Sep 2007 11:45:25 -0400, Steve Snyder wrote: > > On Thursday 06 September 2007 9:49:49 am McGuffey, David C. wrote: > > MBR, all managed by lilo. That install went mostly automatic and I > > didn't have to tweak any settings in the BIOS or lilo...it all just > > worked. > > > > I've looked at a bunch of dual-boot guidance but I'm not finding > > what I need to deal with two separate hd each with their own os and > > MBR. Maybe it is there, I'm just not understanding it. > > > > This should be easy...what do I need to do to get grub to chainload > > WinXP on hd1? > > I have a similar setup, with F7 on sda (1st SCSI hard disk) and Win2K > on sdb (2nd SCSI hard disk). > > The trick is that Windows wants to boot from the 1st hard disk. The > solution is to have GRUB tell it that the 2nd HD is the 1st one. See > below for a snippet of my config file. > > Hope this helps. > > ------ > > title Fedora (2.6.22.4-65.fc7) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.4-65.fc7 ro root=/dev/sda1 vga=0x305 > initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.img > > title Win2K/SP4 > rootnoverify (hd1,0) > map (hd0) (hd1) > map (hd1) (hd0) > chainloader +1 > Sorry I'm so late in reporting back. This suggestion worked like a champ. Dave McGuffey Principal Information System Security Engineer // NSA-IEM, NSA-IAM SAIC, IISBU, Columbia, MD
