Re: HELP- Grub problem, I can't load WInXP SOLVED

2005-09-27 Thread Andy
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 12:42, Tom Pfeifer wrote: Since your WinXP on /dev/hda1 is a FAT32 partition, one thing that might work is to use the backup boot sector that is kept on FAT32 file systems to restore the WinXP boot sector on /dev/hda1. dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hda1 bs=512 count=1

Re: HELP- Grub problem, I can't load WInXP SOLVED

2005-09-27 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Andy wrote: On Tuesday 27 September 2005 12:42, Tom Pfeifer wrote: Since your WinXP on /dev/hda1 is a FAT32 partition, one thing that might work is to use the backup boot sector that is kept on FAT32 file systems to restore the WinXP boot sector on /dev/hda1. dd if=/dev/hda1

HELP- Grub problem, I can't load WInXP

2005-09-26 Thread Andy
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

Re: HELP- Grub problem, I can't load WInXP

2005-09-26 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 26.09.2005 um 14:17 schrieb Andy: 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,

Re: HELP- Grub problem, I can't load WInXP

2005-09-26 Thread Roby
Add the hide/unhide commands shown below: title Windows NT/2000/XP hide (hd0,4) unhide (hd0,0) root(hd0,0) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 title Windows 95/98/Me hide (hd0,0) unhide (hd0,4) root(hd0,4) savedefault makeactive

Re: HELP- Grub problem, I can't load WInXP

2005-09-26 Thread Andy
On Monday 26 September 2005 3:17, Dennis Stosberg wrote: Windows XP is on /dev/hda, which is (hd0,0) in GRUB's notation. So, if you install the GRUB boot sector into /dev/hda1, you overwrite Windows XP's boot sector in that partition. That means you won't be able to boot Windows XP at all,

Re: HELP- Grub problem, I can't load WInXP

2005-09-26 Thread Andy
On Monday 26 September 2005 3:19, Roby wrote: Add the hide/unhide commands shown below: title Windows NT/2000/XP hide (hd0,4) unhide (hd0,0) root(hd0,0) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 title Windows 95/98/Me hide (hd0,0) unhide

Re: HELP- Grub problem, I can't load WInXP

2005-09-26 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Andy wrote: On Monday 26 September 2005 3:17, Dennis Stosberg wrote: Windows XP is on /dev/hda, which is (hd0,0) in GRUB's notation. So, if you install the GRUB boot sector into /dev/hda1, you overwrite Windows XP's boot sector in that partition. That means you won't be able to boot