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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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!


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