I found the problem ... somehow my windows partition got corrupted (no idea how) ... This morning I used fdisk/mbr form a win 98 floppy and then made windows partition active .. however it couldn't boot to it . after running w2k recover process it said partition is damaged .. may be it happened when I resized it using partition magic. However I deleted that partition, recreated and installed windows.. now everything works fine I can boot W2k from grub without any problem .
Thanks every one for their help R'twick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Fisk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 1:31 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dual boot gentto and W2k form grub ? > On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > >Am Dienstag, 10. Juni 2003 04:11 schrieb ext R'twick Niceorgaw: > >> I tried makeactive still no luck. It still says > >> Booting 'Windows 2000 Pro' > >> > >> Root(hd(0,0) > >> Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7 > >> Makeactive > >> Chainloader +1 > >> > >> Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format > >> > >> Any other idea how to boot NTFS from grub ? > >Unfortunately not. But I do it the other way round. I use the w2k bootloader > >to boot either w2k or grub and let grub cope with Linux only. > > > >HTH... > > You can boot Windows fine from grub. The only problem I've encountered is > that windows always wants to be on the First primary partition of the > drive. make sure when you install Gentoo you make the first primary > partition your windows partition. > > My grub.conf looks like this: > > default 0 > timeout 10 > splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > > title=Gentoo Linux 1.4 2.4.20 > root (hd0,1) > kernel /bzImage-2.4.20-gentoo root=/dev/hda3 > > title=Windows 2000 > root (hd0,0) > chainloader +1 > > > I'd say that the large majority of people who have problems dual booting > windows and linux in any form are having those problems because Windows > isn't on the first primary partition on the Primary Master drive. > > > Christopher Fisk > -- > Marge: Name one of your child's friends. > Homer: Uh, let's see, Bart's friends ... Well, there's the fat kid > with the thing; uh, the little wiener whose always got his > hands in his pockets. > Saturdays of Thunder > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
