[plug] Windows XP and Debian

Sham Chukoury chukours at ses.curtin.edu.au
Sun Mar 16 23:45:30 WST 2003


On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 11:50, Quintin Lette wrote:
<snip>
> I haven't actually used it on Debian, but Grub makes your life so much easier 
> for dual booting NT systems and Linux.
<snip>
> title Windows XP
>    map (hd0) (hd1)
>    map (hd1) (hd0)
>    rootnoverify (hd1,0)
>    chainloader +1
>    makeactive

Key point to notice: hd0 and hd1 are swapped. :P

Here's the relevant section from my lilo.conf:

other=/dev/hdb
  label="WinXP"
  optional
  map-drive=0x81
    to=0x80
  map-drive=0x80
    to=0x81

Good luck
§:)



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