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in the grub menu file … I changed the file to read:

Title Windows XP
 rootnoverify (hd1,0)
 map (hd0) (hd1)
 map (hd1) (hd0)
 chainloader +1

These 2 articles helped alot they led me in right direction anyway : http://www.linux.com/articles/113945?tid=129&tid=49 https://www.redhat.com/archives/valhalla-list/2003-February/msg00732.html even though there example didnt work for me,, I also tried the dd boot copy method transplant to windows with no luck… Any way I am Happy wolf Howling tonight, 2 os with no messy boot disks , clean and simple.

documented on: 2007-09-18, madwagon

Dual boot dual disk

https://www.redhat.com/archives/valhalla-list/2003-February/msg00732.html

> I have a box that I want to be dual boot (windows and linux), each
> operating system on a separate disk.
>
> I built the WindowsXP disk first (FAT32) on a master IDE disk, then made the
> Windows disk a slave and installed a blank disk as master, and ... installed
> RH7.3 on it . . .

If you wouldn't have moved the windows disk, it would have worked. Windows doesn't like to be a slave (pun intended), so you need to have grub remap the hard drives, so that windows will think that it is the master. In your grub.conf file, change your windows section to something like this:

title WindowsXP
       map (hd0) (hd1)
       map (hd1) (hd0)
       rootnoverify (hd0,0)
       chainloader +1

The map commands are the key.

ForrestX Taylor @intel.com

Dual boot dual disk

Reference:

Convert a Windows system to dual-boot Linux on a second drive
http://www.linux.com/articles/113945?tid=129&tid=49
By Philip J. Hollenback on February 21, 2005