Dual Booting Windows and Gentoo with Grub.

[Landus Mikain]

Lately, I've been getting annoyed at the bias toward Linux -cough- Blizzard -sneeze- so I put Windows XP on my second hard drive.

Now, to switch between Linux and Windows, I have to unplug or plug in the top hard drive (Gentoo). I just tried getting a bootloader working, but it didn't work.

/boot/grub/grub.conf had the following for the Windows entry.

title=Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

When I boot that, I get

Booting 'Windows XP'

rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1



Help?

[sw4qw]

Just as /dev/hda would be the first hard drive and /dev/hdb would be the second,
windows does NOT reside at (hd0,0) nor anywhere on (hd0).
Most likely it is on (hd1).

Remove everything about windows from grub.conf and try this:

title Windows XP
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
boot