On 5/30/06, Puneet Lakhina puneet.lakhina@gmail.com wrote:

I have two hard disks. THe hard disk which is connected as slave has grub on its mbr. and has a windows xp installation, running along with ubuntu 5.10 . The other disk(connected as master) has only a windows xp installation. I want to be able to boot into either of these 3 os installations (ubuntu and xp on slave and xp on master) from the grub. So i made the slave hard disk as my 1st boot device. Now i can boot into xp and ubuntu of the slave deive easily.

But when i try and boot into the xp installation of the master disk, it boots into the xp installation of slave only.

The entry for the master xp installation in menu.lst is as follows

root (hd1,0) makeactive savedefaults chainloader +1

Dear Puneet,

In addition of making the settings in the grub.conf file, you also need to configure the NT/2k/XP NTLDR via the BOOT.INI file to properly load the desired os. you will see a section something like this, which you will need to tweak to reflect your changed configuration.

[boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

In fact, i woukld suggest you add a section to your existing slave drive's boot.ini to present you with two options for your 2 XP installations, and have only one windoze entry in your grub.conf

The example will be like this

GRUB --> 1. linux, 2. windows

2. windows --> Loads NTLDR, and the presents a menu 1. XP Master 2. XP Slave

Regards R. K. Rajeev

I have added this entry myself.

COuld anyone suggest what the problem could be??

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