to boot windows you have to write: title Windows root (hd0,1) chainloader +1 this will boot your winxp. you have to boot the ntldr partition which then loads xp
as for the other linux distro use boot partition as root. 2007/10/28, Julien Cassette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hello, > I needed to install Windows XP on a logical partition, but I found that it > can't boot from such a partition because NTLDR needs to be installed on a > primary one. > So I set up the following partition scheme: > /dev/sda1 ext3 Gentoo root > /dev/sda2 ntfs NTLDR > /dev/sda4 Extended > /dev/sda5 ext2 Gentoo portage > /dev/sda6 swap Gentoo swap > /dev/sda7 ext3 Gentoo home > /dev/sda8 ntfs Windows XP > > Win xp installed and booted without problem but now that I need to restore > GRUB, I am wondering if I need to write "root (hd0,1)" or "root (hd0,7)" > into the grub.conf to boot windows. > > Thanks for your help > Julien. > -- dott. ing. beso
