Re: Can Grub start Windows XP from "other" partition

[Ulf Zibis]

Am 23.11.2012 05:20, schrieb Felix Miata:
> I can't respond without knowing the partition type bytes for all of them, and 
> the Windows version.
> I may also need to see the actual MBR table entries, as that order is 
> non-standard and apparently
> out of order. I might even need to copy that whole MBR sector to a disk to see 
> what's really going
> on there.

I also have:

Disk /dev/sda: 19457 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

   Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *      0+   3038    3039-  24410736    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2      18936+  19456-    521-   4180680   12  Compaq diagnostics
/dev/sda3       3039    5390    2352   18892440   83  Linux
/dev/sda4       5391   18935   13545  108800212+   5  Extended
/dev/sda5       9725+  12764    3040-  24418768+   7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda6      12765+  18935    6171-  49568526    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda7       5391+   9724    4334-  34812792    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

and:

Disk /dev/sdb: 10337 cylinders, 240 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 7741440 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

   Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *      0+   4604-   4605-  34812823+   7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdb2       9782   10336     555    4195800   12  Compaq diagnostics
/dev/sdb3       5952    9781    3830   28954800    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb4       4604+   5951-   1348-  10183680    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdb5       5952+   9781    3830-  28954768+   b  W95 FAT32


OT: do you have any idea, why and how sfdisk determines the number of heads on the disk differently 
above, 240 vs. 255 ?

The Windows version is all XP SR-3 here.

-Ulf