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Posted: Feb. 26 2007,01:00 QUOTE
I have tryed a few different things. But my windows is on HDB1 with only one partition.  How would I change the root command "root (hd0,0)" to boot windows?
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Posted: Feb. 26 2007,01:17 QUOTE
Here's part of mine, changed to fit your situation.


default 0
timeout 5

title Windows
root (hd1,0)
chainloader +1
makeactive
boot

title DSL
root (hd0,2
etc etc
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Posted: Feb. 26 2007,03:00 QUOTE
I tried that but it returns something like "unknown file system partiton type 0X07" or something like that
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Posted: Feb. 26 2007,03:07 QUOTE
Partition Table for /dev/hdb

        ---Starting---      ----Ending----    Start Number of
# Flags  Head  Sect  Cyl    ID    Head Sect   Cyl    Sector  Sectors
-- ----- ---- ---- ----   ----   ----     ----    ----  -------- ---------
1  0x80    1       1       0    0x07   254   63   1023      63   117226242
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Posted: Mar. 11 2007,12:42 QUOTE
Windows CAN'T boot from anywhere else than the first disk!
It must be "swapped" before trying that:

default 0
timeout 5

map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)

title Windows
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
makeactive
boot

title DSL
root (hd1,2
etc etc

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