On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:22:24 -0800 Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:24:33 +0200 > Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > A friend of mine tried to resize his windows partition using partition magic > > and then proceeded to install fedora (don't know the version but with kernel > > 2.6.5) which complained about some problem and after the installation when > > grub came up it showed an unknown os and would boot it, booted fine into > > fedora. > > > > I later dumped fedora and installed debian (testing from the netinst cd) for > > him, which he is rather happy with, although he still needs his windows > > partition for the moment for some word documents. > > > > I tried booting windows from the debian grub (which correctly recognized it > > as window). For the first time it started booting (I killed it that time), > > and later on it just got stuck when booting widows after showing > > > > chainloader +1 > > > > I tried downloading ntfsprogs and running ntfsfix and also made sure that > > it is marked as bootable. The partition is still there and mountable. > > > > any Idea what went wrong with the installation and how to fix it? > > > > Thanks > > > > > > Have you tried reinstalling GRUB? Sounds like the GRUB install when > installing Fedora was messed up someway or the other. Reinstall GRUB and it > should be fine. > Grub was reinstalled when I installed debian over fedora, it did boot once but then failed again will try the fixboot from the next message thanks > Good Luck, > Amit > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]