Howdy,
I have a Dell motherboard with 2-SATA disks attached. There’s apparently no BIOS option to select boot order among disks–the sequence is determined by plug-in order. The first plugged-in disk, /dev/sda, has Linux installed and I’m trying to use GRUB for dual-booting. The second, /dev/sdb, has Windows installed.
The Windows disk, /dev/sdb, has 3-partitions: the first is only 57MB and seems to be for utilities. The second one is bigger and holds the installation. The third is for system backup and data.
No matter what I do, it doesn’t find the device. Here’s my code in menu.lst:
###Added for dual boot to Windows###
title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd1,1)
makeactive
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
chainloader +1
Note, I’ve tried (hd1,0), (hd1,1) and even (hd1,2). None work. Isn’t this strange?? I have even added (hd1) to device.map:
(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/sda
(hd1) /dev/sdb
Could the motherboard be preventing dual-booting? I’ve done several dual-boot systems in the past and all eventually worked fine, so I’m really hoping that someone can tell me what could possibly be afoul here? :\
Thanks!