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16-Mar-2007, 11:21 AM #1
Question How to add XP to boot loader
I plan to install Freespire 1.0.13 on a PATA drive while my XP drive is disconnected internally (a SATA drive). I'm doing this because I don't want Freespire to mess with the SATA drive at all. So I'm going to need to add XP as an option to the boot loader menu. How do I do this?
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16-Mar-2007, 12:01 PM #2
Add the following lines, note that Grub identifies the hard drives and partitions differently than how Linux labels them; in my example, PATA drive hda1 is my Windows C drive (the standard place, usually) and its marked in Grub as hd0,0

Code:
# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title           Other operating systems:
root

# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/hda1
title           Microsoft Windows XP Professional
root            (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader     +1
I am not sure if there is anything special needed for SATA or not, but my coworker and I don't think so... It won't blow up the drive or anything if this doesn't work...

Enjoy Freespire, I am interested in checking it out myself...
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16-Mar-2007, 12:41 PM #3
lefty, thanks for the info. I'm guessing that on the mobo the system sees the PATA drive as the first drive and the SATA drive as the second. Do you think that's true?
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16-Mar-2007, 06:55 PM #4
I've tried a lot of distros in the past... and I must say that Freespire is my favorite. Just a teeny wit buggy as far as boot time and even some issues with Firefox but I love it. I would never go back to Windows!

...Freespire 2 comes out in May.

...I believe so, haha.
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17-Mar-2007, 12:37 PM #5
Cool xjesse. So far I haven't been able to get the sound to work in Freespire so I might be bagging it altogether if that can't work. I haven't even started on the video yet. I'm stuck at 1024x768 and I don't like it. One thing I don't like about Freespire is that the Freespire forum is pretty slow in responding, whereas with Ubuntu they are lightening fast. That's yet another reason I might ditch Freespire and go with Ubuntu completely on the Linux side.
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17-Mar-2007, 04:28 PM #6
I've been sent about 10 Ubunto CDs and I have not yet to install any. Kind of funny actually. Is it really the talk of the town?
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17-Mar-2007, 09:19 PM #7
I have to admit, ubuntu is about as close to perfect as you can get with a prepackaged linux distribution. But, personally, I prefer sabayon. You have to do a bit more work (IE: uninstalling unemerging stuff you don't need, and optionally rebuilding what you want) but I find it smoother/faster, portage is great, and I prefer KDE.

I tried freespire when it was lycoris 1.2. Couldn't stand it's slowness, lack of packages, and lack of configurability then. Only thing to it's credit was it found my TV tuner correctly.
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