[wellylug] Grub cant find XP - Newbie

[Simon Antliff]

I think XP only plays nice if it is on the first partition. 

Here's my manually created grub:

title WinXP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1



Hope this helps.
Simon


On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 11:47:13 +1300, Bill Christiansen
<bill.christiansen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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