[wellylug] Grub cant find XP - Newbie

[Lindsay]

I tried both suggested grub boots below.   Still didn't work.  I have
had a private email since suggesting that it my be a hard quirk on my PC
and wait for the next version of Ubuntu which is likely to fix it.

If no other suggestions, thanks in the mean time.

On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 11:19 +1300, Simon Antliff wrote:
> 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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