-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, You can boot with the installation CD for windows XP. Then enter the recovery console and issue:
fixboot (1) That should get you going. 1. http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/bootcons_fixboot.mspx HTH, - -Nik On 06/28/2011 08:26 PM, Thomas Vaughan wrote: > 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. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJODcKSAAoJEDFLYVOGGjgX2wEIAKMQyc+wNgtxLHaWroyDDMi5 FuxjCTxzO0G8GFtNQMubpmRkDeR2UVkGOvkghRydQdPeItkA7+Edh+ZJQFg0XfG0 ptMNxpA5NR/0+VDzptbPTyxjY0/IZ1i6c0MYBwEE5ksPNw+bbtmdfDTpyHJRT53l rKk47x7P7EMqCQlMU/n+c7fArGgJku5c+WzjQMa1YbByh6G7Ij2mPYTKFaX2jq8W wei04Oek0Vs+8xbbt41H7toYZIxc2N+4pzqrYj2ijh+S07U+yqNpzkOwJ2sysW2u Xsw7S0HN3dPT/dPswyu72VUPZjEZveOFbty7Lkpt+qbqPpsIVX99fxPaQefIecs= =Bhiw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
