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Problems booting WinXP
From: |
Elver Loho |
Subject: |
Problems booting WinXP |
Date: |
Tue, 2 May 2006 18:39:41 +0300 |
Hiya!
I dualboot Linux and Windows XP on this computer. At least I try to.
The problem is, GRUB refuses to boot up WinXP here. Complains (if I
remember correctly) about illegal devices. Windows XP is on a logical
partition and GRUB can't seem to be able to get at it.
Here's the file system as reported by fdisk:
Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 13 104391 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 14 24320 195245977+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 14 140 1020096 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 * 141 10339 81923436 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda7 10340 24320 112302351 83 Linux
And the fstab:
address@hidden:~# cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sda7 / reiserfs notail 0 1
/dev/sda6 /windows vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/sda1 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sda5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
This is my work computer and I had a wholly different partitioning in
mind, but, meh, the guys at the shop can't read and I unfortunately
don't have the time to reinstall everything.
The problem, then, seems to be that GRUB (0.95, Ubuntu) can't read the
Windows partition. Linux itself can. In fact I have it mounted right
now.
The entry for booting Linux reads:
title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.12-10-386
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-10-386 root=/dev/sda7 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.12-10-386
savedefault
boot
This, however, doesn't seem to be working:
title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,5)
chainloader +1
makeactive
boot
Could someone point me in the right direction as to what I need to do
in order to boot WinXP?
Elver
- Problems booting WinXP,
Elver Loho <=