I had Windows XP on the only hard disk in my system and then added Windows 7 to dual boot. Dual-boot worked fine. Weeks later I added a Solid State Drive, made it my primary drive in my computer,(sda), and installed Ultimate Edition 2.8. Grub 2 added the Windows loader and I was able to triple boot all 3. Not willing to "leave well enough alone", I wanted to try another version of Linux, installed that to sdb, on the same drive as Windows, different partition, and it messed up the multi-boot. I can boot to both version of Linux and WIndows 7 but when I try to boot to XP it just reboots the machine and never loads it. Thinking it was a problem with the Windows boot loader, I shut off the computer, disconnected sda, booted my XP disk from the CD drive, chose to Repair Windows, selected C:\Windows, and typed FIXMBR. I was then able to boot to XP again, but not Windows 7, so I downloaded and ran Easy BCD, followed the directions, and got it back to where I can dual boot Windows XP and 7, as long as the drive,(sda), is not connected.
Now the problem, once I connect sda and reboot, select the Windows boot loader from Grub, and then Windows XP from the Windows boot loader, the machine wants to reboot again and not load XP. If I disconnect the SSD drive,(sda), or press F8 on boot up to select my boot device, and select the sdb hard drive, I can boot to XP.
I'm thinking it must be something wrong with Grub 2, but I haven't a clue on how to fix it. I backed up Ultimate Edition and could reinstall it again, but I'd rather not do that if there's a way to fix this so that I don't have to press F8 or disconnect sda to boot to XP.
Can anyone help?
Thanks,
Snyde