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I just put in a SATA drive into an otherwise PATA machine. I put Windows XP |
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on the new drive. I added the following to my grub.conf: |
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title=Windows XP |
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rootnoverify (hd2,0) |
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makeactive |
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chainloader +1 |
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but when I tell grub to boot this item, I get an otherwise blank screen with |
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the text: |
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rootnoverify (hd2,0) |
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makeactive |
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chainloader +1 |
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and nothing else happens. |
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I have never had difficulty getting grub to play with Windows in the past, but |
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that was always with PATA hardware. |
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I have tried editing the grub configuration at boot time to see if grub |
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doesn't like my drive number or something. I used the TAB autocompletion |
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feature which lists three disks (hd0, hd1, and hd2). The former two are |
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definitely my raid array based on the number of partitions they contain. The |
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latter has only one partition (according to grub's TAB autocompletion) which |
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is as it should be given that it is obviously the Windows disk. |
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I'm at a loss here. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm afraid I have |
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to use my BIOS to switch boot disks until I resolve this. |
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