Editing Grub

[Joe Hart]

Tez wrote:
> Richard E. Barmann wrote:
>   
>> I am using kubuntu and KDE 3.5.2. I have this on a 20G hard drive. Is it 
>> possible and practical (and easy enough) that I could put Windows on my 10G 
>> drive that is empty, I have a company that I do some work for that needs 
>> there reports done on a form that would be better in Windows.
>>   
>>     
> It is possible, you'll just need to add a couple of lines to your
> /boot/grub/menu.lst if update-grub didn't detect it.
> Something like:
> title               Windows
> root               (hd1,0)
> chainloader   +1
>
>   
Keep in mind though that windows prefers to be on the first drive in the 
system, so if it's not your primary drive (hda1 which grub calls (hd0,0) 
then it's possible to have grub fool windows into thinking it is by 
doing this:

title        Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
root        (hd1,0)
savedefault
makeactive
map        (hd0) (hd1)
map        (hd1) (hd0)
chainloader    +1

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That is direct from the breezy install on a system that had windows as 
the first drive on the secondary IDE controller (hdc).  If your other hd 
is a slave to the first (hdb), then it would be (hd0,2) to grub rather 
than (hd1,0)

I don't quite understand why grub has to have such a weird naming system 
for the devices, but it does.