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krogen

Member

Registered: 2008-02-11

Posts: 13

Grub won't boot Windows

Hello,

I have two hard drives. One with Arch with four partitions (sda1, sda2, sda3, sda4) and one with Windows XP Pro (sdb1 , one partition). When I try booting to Windows with the following configuration, nothing happens. No error, just a frozen (or what it seems like) grub with the Windows launcher lines (rootnoverify (hd1,0) ; makeactive ; etc).

title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda3 ro
initrd /kernel26.img

# (1) Arch Linux Fallback
title  Arch Linux Fallback
root   (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda3 ro
initrd /kernel26-fallback.img

# (1) Windows
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

Everything looks good to me. Sine Windows is on sdb1, first partition, it would be (hd1,0), right? Anything else I should look at?

Thanks.

tigrmesh

IRC Op

From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 794

Re: Grub won't boot Windows

Check out this page:  http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB.  Go to the section on windows on another disk.