Re: Can't boot NT5

[Jochen Hoenicke]

On Oct 12, Loris Caren wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the excellent suggestion, I should have RTFM. Alas however
> invoking map has made no difference although you are clearly right since if I
> remove the IDE drive I can get grub to boot the NT.  Maybe I'm not
> understanding the map command (and this time I think I have RTFM). It doesn't
> seem to do anything.  Shouldn't I expect to have to do a rootnoverify
> (hd0,2) after doing the map (hd0) (hd1) ; map (hd1) (hd0) - in other words
> shouldn't grub 'see' the effect of the drive swapping?

No, grub doesn't see its own drive swapping.  The mapping takes effect
when booting the chainloader, so it is only visible afterwards.

  Jochen