One of those drives is an SSD so I would use that as the Windows boot drive. I have four HDs on that machine I would dedicate two for Windows and two for ESXi. This comments it out and means the boot menu will no longer be hidden, allowing you to always see the menu list when booting up. I was thinking on creating a USB boot drive and that way if I boot with the USB flash drive I would go into ESXi and if I do not use the flash drive I would go into Windows. Now I am having a real problem getting the Grub to boot the Windows XP on the new hard drive. To stop this behaviour and go straight to the boot menu instead of the hidden screen change it to this: #hiddenmenu I have repaired the windows XP and it is now working on the new system. Fedora 8 by default only allows you 5 seconds before booting into the default option so if you are not paying attention you might miss it and have to reboot before being able to make your selection.
The "hiddenmenu" option hides the boot menu so you need to press a key to get to it, instead showing the example splash screen in the first screenshot above.
Kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.9-85.fc8 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet acpi=off When grub4dos finishes a sequence of commands in a menu.lst and finds the end of file or a new title command, it automatically runs the ‘boot‘ command which then transfers CPU execution to the code loaded into memory (either by a chainloader command or an initrd or kernel command). # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda3 This example is quite strange and I actually discourage the use of Grub4Dos for being as outdated as the Super Grub Disk (not Super Grub2 Disk). Mikael63 and how he managed to boot into its Linux from Windows thanks to Grub4Dos. If the problem also occurs in UEFI mode, you can choose to boot directly into Windows Boot Manager instead of Grub2. Grub4dos does not support UEFI and AIO Boot does not support installing Grub4dos on GPT disks.
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg. Boot into Linux from Windows thanks to Grub4Dos. You can install Grub4dos as the default boot loader by running AIOCreator.exe, then clicking the Bootloaders button and installing it. # NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file