on 04.8.9 11:14 PM, Ken Bloom at [EMAIL PROTECTED] was reported to have writen:
> On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 22:19:45 -0700 > dylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> on 04.8.9 5:11 PM, Foo Lim at [EMAIL PROTECTED] was >> reported to have writen: >> >>> On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: >>> >>>> [...] >>>> title Windows NT/2000/XP >>>> root (hd1,0) >>>> savedefault >>>> makeactive >>>> chainloader +1 >>>> >>>> I'd like to put "boot" at the end of the Win2k stanza, but when I >>> type> "boot" at the grub prompt, it tells me that the kernel needs to >>> load> before booting (huh?). >>> >>> Hi Peter, >>> >>> Try something like this: >>> >>> title Win2K >>> root (hd0,0) >>> makeactive >>> chainloader +1 >>> # For loading DOS >>> chainload /bootsect.dos >>> >>> You might be missing the last line. >>> >>> HTH, >>> FL >>> >> >> just a little curious how this is all working out... my upstairs >> neighbor and i have been messing around with suse 9.1 on his machine. >> we installed linux first, and then windows xp - and of course grub was >> removed from the MBR. after re-installing grub we were able to boot to >> either windows or linux from the boot menu. however, after a second >> install of winXP and grub winXP refuses to boot from the grub boot >> menu... after selecting the windows option a back screen comes up >> saying that the partition is not a bootable partition... when in fact >> it used to be... > > Use fdisk (or cfdisk) to make sure the bootable flag is set on the > windows partition. > ...tried that, and it didn't work. I also tried FIXBOOT from the winXP recovery console (shudder)... no luck there either... Dylan _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech