Re: [JoLUG-General] Problem Booting Windows

[Saif Attar]

Thanks Jad, but this was not the link I was looking for, Windows exists 
in my grub menu, it's just that when i choose it, it gives my some 
commands, and then it hangs, I have had this problem before, it is 
caused by a problem in the 2.6 kernel, when using more than 1 OS, linux 
somehow changes the layout of the partition tables, or let's say the 
pointers, and then when windows tries to access the mbr which was moved, 
it can't find it, and it hangs, the solution to this problem was using a 
command like:

sfdisk -d /dev/hda | sfdisk --no-reread -H255 /deb/hda
this will get the current layout of the disk with heads and cylinders 
and where each partition starts, and save it to overwrite the current 
saved ( messed up partition table) no the problem is, in order for this 
to work, there should be no warnings in the output of the first command, 
but i get some warnings, so what I should do is, take the ouput of the 
first command, save it to a file, remove all warning, and set that file 
as the input for the 2nd command!

If ur saying, well, if u know all this what don't u do it, it's because 
i can't figure out which parts are necessary in the file, i keep getting 
bad input message! I tried to find the site with the solution, but there 
no use!

Thanks Again,
Saif A.
Jad Madi wrote:
http://www.ubuntuguide.org/#addwindowsentrygrubmenu
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 19:48:34 +0200, Saif Attar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

hello every1,
I am have a problem booting windows after installing ubuntu, it's a
kernel 2.6 bug, Aram once gave me a very good link on how to fix this,
and I lost it, can you please send it again?!
Peace,
Saif A.
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