> Mikkel wrote: > > Tim wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 14:21 +0000, Beartooth wrote: > >> I had what seems the same problem recently. What worked was to > >> add the two map lines, plus a "makeactive" line (whatever that is) : > >> > >> [...] > >> title XPPro > >> rootnoverify (hd1,0) > >> map (hd0) (hd1) > >> map (hd1) (hd0) > >> makeactive > >> chainloader +1 > > > > The makeactive sets that partition as a bootable one. Some OSs won't > > boot from a partition unless it's flagged as being bootable. > > > > It seems odd, to me, that you've got remapping commands *after* the > > rootnoverify command. > > > If you put it after the remapping commands, would you have to change > the drive used from hd1,0 to hd0,0, or does GRUB pay any attention > to the remapping commands when executing its own commands? I have > looked in the info pages for GRUB, and I have not found it. I > suspect that the order of the commands does not matter... > > Mikkel > -- That drive (formerly hd0) was bootable for WinXP before I moved it to hd1 and put a new drive in as hd0. So...grub got it to boot without the 'makeactive' directive. Dave McGuffey Principal Information System Security Engineer // NSA-IEM, NSA-IAM SAIC, IISBU, Columbia, MD
