Re: [Bug-grub] Can't boot my Windows XP partition

[Jason Thomas]

On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 11:57:05PM -0600, Devin Henderson wrote:
> I had Red Hat 7.2 installed with Grub. The Red Hat installer recognized 
> my Windows partition and Grub booted it properly. Then I reformatted my 
> Linux partition and installed Red Hat 7.3. Now when I try to boot 
> Windows XP it says something like "Selected disk was not found." Here is 
> my grub.conf file:
> 
> default=0
> timeout=3
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> title Red Hat Linux 7.3
>    root (hd0,0)
>    kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 ro root=/dev/hda4
>    initrd /initrd-2.4.18-3.img
> title Windows XP Professional
>    root (hd2,4)
>    makeactive
>    chainloader +1
> 
> This is what my disk looks like:
> 
> /dev/hda1        redhat /boot directory
> /dev/hda2        fat32 - windows xp
> /dev/hda3        redhat swap partition
> /dev/hda4        redhat / directory


default=0
timeout=3
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux 7.3
root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 ro root=/dev/hda4
        initrd /initrd-2.4.18-3.img
title Windows XP Professional
        root (hd0,1)                                 <<<<< here
        makeactive
        chainloader +1