[ale] Dual boot XP?

[Brian Pitts]

Jim Lynch wrote:
> 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.
> 

I doubt XP liked being moved to a different # partition. You probably
need to modify it's boot.ini file. It lives at the root of C: and has a
format like

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect

-Brian