Re: RFE: Grub should provide option to swap partition order

[Felix Miata]

On 2013-02-01 01:30 (GMT+0100) Ulf Zibis composed:

> The trick is, I only moved it physically, from start cyl. 0+ to start cyl. 
> 16418, but not logically,
> by swapping the entries in the partition table. The OLD Windows is still on 
> sda1 after the move +
> swap partition table entries, so I'm freed from tweaking the registry.

Don't be so sure yet. I have no idea whether NTLDR behavior is impacted by 
partition entry shuffling out of logical order.

> BOOT.INI on both, sda1 & sda2, is unchanged:
> [boot loader]
> timeout=5
> default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
> [operating systems]
> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" 
> /fastdetect

If it is true that both are exactly as above, then your problem doesn't have 
much if anything to do with Grub. Regardless which of the two you're having 
Grub load, the result is NTLDR is pointed to the same (first) partition to 
start. Try reading http://support.microsoft.com/kb/289022 or similar and 
fixing either or both boot.ini to point to the correct partition(s).

You can simplify your Grub menu by including entries for both Windows 
installations in one boot.ini, and pointing Grub to that one 
partition/boot.ini, once it is suitably configured. To be clear, this is all 
about initializing, and is no promise that registry entries won't be required 
to actually make both XP installations run.
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