SATA confusion
B.J. McClure
keepertoad at verizon.net
Sun Mar 30 00:28:09 UTC 2008
On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 15:53 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> I was able to install WindowsXT on a SATA drive. This Ubuntu is on
> the other IDE drive. To get windows to load I had to disable the IDE
> drive. When windows was loaded I could not get to Grub. So I unplugged
> power to the SATA drive and again Grub worked as expected.
>
> Today I wanted to dual boot with windows. So I plugged in the SATA
> drive and with the Ubuntu live cd in operation I looked with fdisk and I
> had a /dev/hda which is the IDE and /dev/sba which is the SATA drive.
>
> I put the grub setup on (hd0) and so with both drives working grub
> works. But for some reason I cannot get windows to boot. I am afraid
> there is no (hd??) that fits the SATA /dev/sda1 which is where it is.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Karl
title Windows XP professional
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1
B.J.
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