I have apparently done a bad thing, no doubt because of my own failure to RTFM, and I'm wondering if there is a way for me to fix it.
Here is the output of 'fdisk -l': Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x48cf583c Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 63 155653784 77826861 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2 155653785 306086444 75216330 83 Linux /dev/sda3 306086445 312576704 3245130 5 Extended /dev/sda5 306086508 312576704 3245098+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris Using version 1.99-8 of grub-install on a Debian GNU/Linux (Unstable) machine, I did # grub-install --force /dev/sda1 Now, of course, MS Windows XP won't boot from /dev/sda1 when I select it from the grub menu. Instead, I see the word 'GRUB' printed on the screen and can apparently do nothing more without rebooting. I can still select to boot Linux from the grub menu, and that works well enough. I'm hoping that I don't have to re-install MS Windows, especially because I don't want the corporate IT folks to have to help me with this. Anyway, I'm wondering if there is anything that I can do to get MS Windows XP to boot again. BTW, I already had grub installed on the MBR (for /dev/sda), and I had previously done # grub-install --force /dev/sda2 while mucking around with a VMDK setup so that I could boot /dev/sda2 under VirtualBox. -- Thomas E. Vaughan _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
