[Novalug] Boot loader

[Beartooth]

On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, smahmud at cox.net wrote:

> Hello Folks: I am a newbie, so please don't flame me! I tried 
> to install OpenSUSE 11 on my laptop.  I really blew it when I 
> tried a Partition Magic (PM) change on my XP partition. 
> Before I rebooted for the ORIGINAL PM change, I went back into 
> PM and tried to free-up even more space for LINUX. Well, to 
> make a short story long, I was able to load my LAMP stack. 
> However, due to "double" PM changes, my pc's boot record (MBR) 
> got all screwed up.  The MBR was not reporting the correct size 
> of my XP partition to bootloader (GRUB).  So, GRUB cannot 
> locate the Windows partition.  However, the Windows C: slice is 
> mounted as dev/sda1. Is there ANY way that I can modify GRUB to 
> "find" XP and subsequently allow me to boot into the Evil 
> Empire?

 	From one of my gurux, last time I had that problem; edit 
cautiously as necessary :


I believe one of your friends on Novalug gave me the recipe:
Michael Hughes <itismike at gmail.com>. Add the map and makeactive
lines to the XPPro section in your grub.conf:

title XPPro
        rootnoverify (hd1,0)
        map (hd0) (hd1)
        map (hd1) (hd0)
        makeactive
        chainloader +1

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