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Author: Damian Brasher
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Lisi wrote:

> ### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
>
> title           Auftakt
> #  unhide               (hd1,0)
> #  hide         (hd0,0)
> #  rootnoverify         (hd1,0)
> hide            (hd0,0)
> map             (hd1,0)(hd0,0)
> map             (hd0,0)(hd1.0)
> rootnoverify    (hd0,0)
>                 makeactive
>                 chainloader +1
>                 boot


I was looking through this:
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/GRUB_Howto_and_Trouble-shooter

and

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&postid=1413211

Basic question but does the XP partition boot when you unplug the Linux
drive and make XP primary master?

Just an observation but I see you have omitted:
hide (hd0,0)

What you need to do next is set aside an hour or two, go through every
step of the above guides with a fine tooth comb and note down the results
with pen and paper (or whatever) until you have built a picture of how
grub views your disk configuration, file types, partition layout, kernel
locations. The key here is how grub 'sees' things.

You should get to the stage when you can type the grub commands to boot
into MS XP then you can make these permanent.

Hope this is not too vague,

Damian B

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