On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 15:17 -0400, Jim Perrin wrote: > > > > Now if you want to be able to choose both without going into > > the BIOS, you're going to have to setup GRUB to map > > (/boot/grub/device.map): > > (hd0) /dev/hda > > (hd0) /dev/sda Something is a bit strange here. Can't have but one (hd0). Should presumably be: (hd1) /dev/sda I've run into trouble in the past if grub's device.map differed from the BIOS boot order on IDE/SCSI machines. > > > You don't have to mess with grub's device map. You can do it all from > the windows section in the config > > title Windows > map (hd0) (hd1) > map (hd1) (hd0) > rootnoverify (hd0,0) > makeactive > chainloader +1 > > At least that's how I've got it set up in the office. If there's some > arcane reason for this to be a bad thing, I'm all ears. That approach works for me also. [Although I still consider using dual- boot with Windoze to be evil. :-) VMware is a mitigation. ] Phil