I'm sure that to many people on this list, not being able to run WinXP would be considered a good thing (TM), but trust me, I have lots of important reasons for needing it :)
Anyway, here is the deal: I have a few drives, one with win98 (don't ask!), one with win xp, and one with Debian Sid. I had grub happily booting everything until recently when WinXP experienced some HDD corruption and I had to do a repair. Obviously, this repair overwrote the MBR and I was left with the normal Windows dual boot option of WinXP and Win98. I used Knoppix to chroot to my Debian install and run grub-install /dev/hda1 in order to put the MBR back. This worked, grub's menu comes up at boot-time and runs Debian fine. It's using the original menu.1st, but the entries for Windows just don't work (I don't care if Win98 doesn't work, it's WinXP that is very important to me). When selecting WinXP from grub's menu, I get: ----------------------------------------------------- root (hd0,0) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 GRUB Loading Stage2... ----------------------------------------------------- and it returns back to the grub menu again. Of course, I could just run another windows repair but I'd lose Debian/Grub again so I'd rather fix grub. I took a backup of the /boot/grub directory before running grub-install and the only file that seems to have changed is the stage2 file. Anyway, here is the setup: /boot/grub$ fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 4079 32764536 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda2 4080 19457 123523785 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 4080 4601 4192933+ b W95 FAT32 /dev/hda6 4602 19457 119330788+ 7 HPFS/NTFS Disk /dev/hdc: 82.3 GB, 82348277760 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10011 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdc1 1 3060 24579418+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hdc2 3061 10011 55833907+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hdc5 3061 6120 24579418+ b W95 FAT32 /dev/hdc6 6121 10011 31254426 b W95 FAT32 Disk /dev/hdf: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdf1 1 14593 117218241 7 HPFS/NTFS Disk /dev/hdg: 76.8 GB, 76869918720 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9345 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdg1 * 1 4 32098+ 83 Linux /dev/hdg2 5 126 979965 83 Linux /dev/hdg3 127 1342 9767520 83 Linux /dev/hdg4 1343 4199 22948852+ 5 Extended /dev/hdg5 1343 2558 9767488+ 83 Linux /dev/hdg6 2559 3774 9767488+ 83 Linux /dev/hdg7 3775 3956 1461883+ 83 Linux /dev/hdg8 3957 4199 1951866 82 Linux swap / Solaris WinXP is on hda1, Debian is on hdg*. I did originally make the mistake of running grub-install /dev/hdg1 (rather than hda1), but I re-ran grub-install and it all seemed fine. The entries in menu.1st are the same auto-detected values from Debian's original installation, and are: title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.12-custom root (hd3,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.12-custom root=/dev/hdg2 ro savedefault boot title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-2-386 root (hd3,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-386 root=/dev/hdg2 ro initrd /initrd.img-2.6.8-2-386 savedefault boot title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-2-386 (recovery mode) root (hd3,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-386 root=/dev/hdg2 ro single initrd /initrd.img-2.6.8-2-386 savedefault boot ### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST # This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian # ones. title Other operating systems: root # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS # on /dev/hda1 title Windows NT/2000/XP root (hd0,0) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS # on /dev/hda5 title Windows 95/98/Me root (hd0,4) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 Can anybody please help??? Many thanks in advance, Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
