Re: Installed Edubuntu, now, Windows won't boot....

 Hi,

Couldn't you edit the grub.conf file to read something like:

default=0
timeout=10
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
makeactive

(the grub command 'makeactive' may not be necessary for your installation)

or

try walking through the steps via the grub command line as shown here:

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/DOS_002fWindows.html#DOS_002fWindows

The above is assuming that you are using the first harddisk on your
primary IDE channel and that your WIN/OS lives on the first partition
of that drive. You may need to adjust if windows is somewhere else. For
example if you have a rescue partition on the disk (some OEM's do this)
your grub file might look like: (again the grub command 'makeactive'
may not be necessary for your installation)
default=0
timeout=10
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1
makeactive
 

Also take a look at:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/linux-tutorials-howtos-reference-material/6527-howto-solve-boot-problems-grub.html
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+Win9x+Grub-HOWTO/proc.html#AEN54  (especially the MAP section)
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/DOS_002fWindows.html#DOS_002fWindows

hth,

John

On 3/6/07, Ameel, Christopher <cjameel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm sure you've heard this too many times to count...  I have a brand new  HP Slimline Pavilion pc from Best Buy.  It has Windows Media Center Ed on it.  I decided to install Edubuntu because my children love playing all of the learning games.

 

One big hard drive nothing special, should be simple right??

 

Windows is the first partition on the only hard drive.  Pop in Edubunut 6.06 LTS and go....  Edubunut installed smoothly, did all the updates, upgrades, etc..  everything was fine.  But, reboot, no windows...    uhoh....

 

puter says:

chainloader (hd0,0) +1

 

Then a blinking "underscore" cursor and nothing happens.

 

I can boot to linux fine.  I can even mount and view the windows partition fine.  I can boot from a winxp pro install cd and browse the C: drive from a prompt fine.

 

I tried fixboot, nothing, fixmbr, nothing.  I even removed Edubuntu completely, repartitioned the hard drive using GParted and installed Suse 10.0 thinking maybe just maybe...  Suse boots, windows:  chainloader (hd0,0) +1

 

All the windows files are there and I've checked boot.ini like a thousand times...

 

 

Please help!

 

_____________________________________________________________
Christopher Ameel
cjameel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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