I wanted to leave my Notebooks mbr alone (has a recovery program in it), so I installed grub in the boot block of my linux partition.
I then made that the active partition and boot with a standard MBR. To chainload Windows XP I omit the makeactive step, and things work fine. Charlie Stefan Bellon wrote: >Stefan Bellon wrote: > >>HubertChan wrote: >> > >[snip] > >>>Try it out for yourself. When you get into GRUB, go to the GRUB >>>command line, and issue the following commands: >>> >>>root (hd0,0) >>>makeactive >>>chainloader +1 >>>boot >>> > >That works without problems, indeed. > >[snip] > >>one) if c:\boot.ini has only the WinXP entry. And you don't have to >>rely on the c:\bootlinx.bin on the WinXP partition. I'll try that >>later on. >>:-) >> > >But now I know the problem again why I didn't do it this way: My >notebook BIOS doesn't boot with GRUB in the MBR. > >Greetings, > >Stefan. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
