[ale] Dual boot XP?

[Shane McKinley]

Try the super grub disk:

http://www.supergrubdisk.org/

It will generate a grub menu for most possibilities. Although some may
consider it cheating, ;)

Shane 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Lynch [mailto:ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com] 
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 10:03 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: [ale] Dual boot XP?

I have an old Dell Dimension that I am using for my Trixbox/Asterisk
server.  I'd like to upgrade the BIOS but from what I can see, Dell only
supports upgrading from a Windows box.  This machine came with XP but
since Trixbox wipes the HD when it installs, I elected to replace the 80
Gb drive with a 200Gb drive so I have the 80 still around. 

To try to turn this into a dual boot system, I booted a gpartd cd and
resized the Trixbox partition, mounted the XP partition via a usb
connection and copied the XP partition to the unused space on the 200 Gb
drive.  It ended up as /dev/hda4.  I used parted to do the copy and
mounted it after the copy was made.  It looks OK.

I then editied grub.conf and added an entry:

root  (hd0,3)
     savedefault
    makeactive
    chainloader +1

Didn't work.  Got a blank screen when I selected XP from the boot
prompt.  Waited 10 minutes but never saw a thing.  Keyboard was still
active, however.  I was able to C-A-D reboot.

So did I miss something?  Or cannot I do what I wanted?  I could replace
the drive and boot XP which might be what I have to do. 

Thanks,
Jim.
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