Dual Boot, Two harddrives. one Sata one Ide

Hello I have a slight problem. On one of my Hardrives (the ide one) windows xp is installed and when I set the boot priority to that hard drive windows xp start without a problem, ie windows bootloader is on it.
And when I set the sata hd as the first bootpriority grub starts and arch boots without a problem. However my problem is that I want the sata hd (with grub) to be able to boot the to, so I dont have to change the hd boot priority. How can it be done ?
It doesnt work this way
# (0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sdb3 ro vga=792
initrd /kernel26.img
# (1) Windows Xp
title Windows Xp
root (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
# (2) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux Fallback
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda3 ro
initrd /kernel26-fallback.img

title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
Last edited by wonder (2008-06-15 08:26:53)

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