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bwh1969

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Registered: 2008-01-05

Posts: 151

not really a newbie, but grub question

To boot XP from a secondary drive: I have

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

and this works, however, I have an expresscard/CF reader in at times and it is recognized by bios. 

Rather than yank out the card, (it gets wedged in at times and is just kind of annoying to remove), if I do a "grub find" to sort out what drive is called what, how can I either

get grub to ignore a disk or
how do I map 3 drives, if this is even possible

so that I can create another entry called, maybe

title Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition - CF card inserted

Misfit138

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Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 4,189

Re: not really a newbie, but grub question

You mean like:

map (hd0) (hd2)
map (hd2) (hd0)

?

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bwh1969

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Registered: 2008-01-05

Posts: 151

Re: not really a newbie, but grub question

I think that is the advice I need.  I have to determine from grub's command line at boot how it sees the drive order. It is seeing the USB Arch-Charka-live (selected from bios as the main boot device) as drive 0, and the internal drive as 1 without the Expresscard/CF so I am guessing it is now seeing the internal drive as 2 and the inserted card as 1.  I have to play around with it I guess.  Thanks for the idea.