Dual Booting

[gaz_dc]

I have installed Mepis Linux on my master drive with the intention of having a dual boot system with WinXp on the slave. I have done this before with Mandrake and it set up the dual booting automatically. However, Mepis did not.

I have added the following to the 'menu.lst' file in /boot/grub, but it did not work

title windows
chainloader (hd1,0)+1

All it does is clear the screen, type the above commands to the screen and then just sit there.

Edit:
I have also now tried the following

title Windows XP
root (hd1,0)
rootnoverify
makeactive
chainloader +1

and

title Windows XP
root (hd1,0)
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
makeactive (hd1,0)
chainloader (hd1,0)+1

after looking at the Mephis Lovers forum, still with no success. I am currently dual booting by swapping the boot order in the bios!

[tuubaaku]

Try putting your information in "grub.conf." I know that's where all mine is.

[bigrigdriver]

windows is just being it's usual snotty self and refusing to cooperate because it isn't on the master drive. You just need to edit menu.lst or grub.conf, whichever you're using. Specifically, you need to trick windows by adding lines to remap the drives, like so:
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
Add these lines after the title, and beofre anything else.

[gaz_dc]

I have added the following to my /boot/grub/menu.lst file

map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)

title Windows XP
root (hd0,0) (also tried root (hd1,0))
rootnoverify
makeactive
chainloader +1

but get the following error

root (hd1,0)
file system type unknown, partition type 0*7
root noverify
(hd1,0): file system type unknown, partition type 0*7
makeactive
chainloader +1

I have managed to boot XP from the slave drive when using Mandrake just not Mepis. Also, Windows boots fine when I switch to boot from it in the BIOS.

I am now at a bit of a loss