The Wassermans wrote: > I currently have Ubuntu 8.04 loaded on a SATA and dual boots with > Windows XP. > > Because I needed a clean install of XP, I decided to take the > opportunity to install XP on a spare PATA drive, Fully expecting to be > able to simply redirect the dual boot instruction to fire up XP on the > PATA drive in the same way as it did previously. > > At present I can only access the XP when I want to by changing the Boot > priority in the BIOS each time. It works but I don't like it. > > I need some guidance please.
Hi Dave, You definitely should be able to do what you're after. What order is your BIOS set to boot in? SATA first? If it's booting from SATA first, then your SATA drive should be (hd0) as far as grub is concerned, and (hd1) should be PATA, although this may not hold true for all BIOSes - i'm not sure whether the order is determined reliably. On my system, it's similar (Ubuntu on SATA, Windows on PATA), but because it books first from PATA, the drive numbers are the other way around. The relevant parts of my /boot/grub/menu.lst entries look like this: ---------------8<------------------- ... ### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST ... title Ubuntu 9.10, kernel 2.6.31-14-generic root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=... ro quiet splash initrd /initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic quiet ... title Ubuntu 9.10, memtest86+ root (hd1,0) kernel /memtest86+.bin quiet ### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST # This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian # ones. title Other operating systems: root # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS # on /dev/hda1 title Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition root (hd0,0) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 ---------------8<------------------- So i think you should be able to clone the Windows part of my config and just change the drive number. Let me know if any of this doesn't make sense. Regards, Paul
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