I have 2 IDE harddisks with similar setup.
The one in the PC I am currently running is the 40 GB one, it has 3 partitions:
sdX1 Linux Swap
sdX2 Linux 4 GB
sdx3 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT rest of the GBs in there for shared use for Linux and Witless XP.
Now, this harddisk is setup in BIOS and by the jumpers as sda, and all works well. I can boot Witless XP from sda3 via this entry:;
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COM32 chain.c32
APPEND hd0 3
Now to the 2nd hard disk with the Witless XP booting issue.
Due to some hardware issue, the harddisk malfunctions when using the jumper settings for Master or Slave, the only option that seems to work fine is when using the jumper setting of Cable Select. And since I used to have a SATA hard disk in that PC prior of that very harddi8sk being plain dead one day, the IDE drives have been: sda for DVD-ROM and sdb for the DVD-Burner. The DVD-burner I had to unplug since that PC only has one slot for IDE drives, and so I can only have one master and one slave. That's the reason the DVD-ROM is set as master and the harddisk should be the Slave.
The setup/fdisk is the same as above. It's a 60 GB hardisk:
sdX1 Linux Swap
sdX2 Linux 4 GB
sdx3 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT rest of the GBs in there for shared use for Linux and Witless XP.
Now, set in BIOS and via jumper, the DVD-ROM is sda, and the harddisk is set to sdb.
BIOS is told to boot from hard disk, and since sdb is the only harddisk installed, it boots from that and the Porteus boot select screen pops up.
Now, since it's from BIOS sdb, sure the same entry as above fails.
Trying to start Witless XP via
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COM32 chain.c32
APPEND hd0 3
Now, when I edit the boot line, and try to start it like so:
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COM32 chain.c32
APPEND hd1 3
When starting Porteus, the hard disk is seen as sda, not sdb, and there is no icon visible for the DVD-ROM on XFCe's desktop.
Due to me not having used that hard disk in quite a while it is an outdated Porteus, x86-64 3.0.1, but it's a matter of mere seconds to boost it up to the very same current version I am running right now writing this post.
Any ideas of why I am unable to boot W-XP from that machine?