For this Sunday morning I'm planning to install WinXP to my Linux PC. Mainly for games, nothing more. Ubuntu is on the first SATA drive. I was thinking I could resize the partition of linux (boot cd -> gparted) and make a FAT32/NTFS partition on that same SATA drive and then install windows in there? Do you think there will be any complications ? Off course Windows will erase my current MBR but I can restore it later using my Ubuntu boot cd or smth. Any tips are welcome.
i did what you suggested. I've unplugged all my disks exept the 40gb IDE where I installed winXP. Now I go back to linux in order to edit my grub menu.lst so i can boot Windows. This is the order of my drives hd0 (sata) Ubuntu hd1 (sata) stuff hd2 (IDE) WinXP hd3 (IDE) stuff the entry for my grub is title WinXP map (hd0) (hd2) map (hd2) (hd0) chainloader (hd2,0)+1 When i try to boot windows I get "NTLDR is missing" If I change the boot order with IDE being first, windows will boot normally, overiding grub off course.
Does this GRUB entry work: title WinXP map (hd0) (hd2) map (hd2) (hd0) chainloader +1 ? If not, does this work: title WinXP map (hd0) (hd2) map (hd2) (hd0) rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 ?
