Dual boot problem

[Guest kiran_vv]

Hi guys, I am new to mandriva. I have a system with 250GB sata HD and Nvidia card on my mother board. I have XP already installed on my system. I have installed Mandriva 2008 one in another partition in the same HD. The installation went fine. The problem is Mandriva does not recognise my XP and its not in the bootloader menu. There are no parameters for windows in menu.lst. I have done a lot of searching and tried to edit menu.lst but in vain, nothing worked out. Can any help me with this. I want to use XP along with mandriva

Edited April 29, 2008 by kiran_vv

[ianw1974]

First of all you need to know where Windows is probably /dev/sda1, so you want menu.lst to have the following:

 

title = Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

 

and that should get you back to booting Windows as well as Linux.

[Guest Yogesh Kumar]

First of all you need to know where Windows is probably /dev/sda1, so you want menu.lst (how to reach this comond) to have the following: ( and how to reach the code window)

 

title = Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

 

and that should get you back to booting Windows as well as Linux.

 

In my case bootloader show only two options Both for Mandriva (ni\ormal/Safe Mode)

 

I have two HDD 80 GB Having Windows and 40 Gb having Mandriva, while using rescue option through Mandriva CD to restore window bootleader it says windows has been forund on the following

0: <hd0>

1: <hda>

 

<entre the number or 'n' or entre to cancell>

 

now which number to entre i tried both 0 and 1 nothig happand

 

do i have to entr 1 or 0 with some prefix or sufix