Friday, November 13, 2009

Dual Boot Using Two Hard-disk Drives

When you have two hard-disks and you are using GRUB to boot OSs on them(Windows is on second hard-disk while Linux is on the first) Windows might refuse to boot by this configuration( in GRUB menu: /boot/grub/menu.lst) as it does not want to boot as from second hard-disk:

Title Windows 
rootnoverify (hd1,0) 
makeactive 
chainloader +1


If you face this consequence. Use this virtual swapping feature of GRUB instead.

Title Windows 
map (hd0) (hd1) 
map (hd1) (hd0) 
rootnoverify (hd0,0) 
makeactive 
chainloader +1


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