[wellylug] Grub cant find XP - Newbie

[Bill Christiansen]

On a Debian based system the grub settings are in /boot/grub/menu.lst
It should have a section for booting XP like this:

# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/hda1
title		Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
root		(hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader	+1

Another way to get your Windows boot loader back would be to boot a
win98 boot disk and run FDISK /MBR but this will wipe out your grub
boot loader so you would want to make a boot floppy for starting MEPIS
first.


On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:21:13 +1300, Lindsay <judenlinz at orcon.net.nz> wrote:
> I have lost my XP (good they all say!)  Not good, the Princess is
> pulling my hair out.
> 
> I put Mepis on the XP box (NTFS) and rebooted.  Grub showed both systems
> but would boot to XP.  Grub has set boot to bootnoverify which I think
> is correct.
> 
> When I put the XP CD in it says it cant find a bootable system.  Grub
> finds ME in a FAT32 system I have installed since.
> 
> Any idea's?
> 
> Linz
> 
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