On Thursday 07 December 2006 16:26, Varadarajan V wrote: > > I had a coulple of experiences in the past that for some reasons > when I did a "grub-install" on my dual-boot machine with FC and XP, > FC boot up but XP didnt. This was a problem with boot.ini file. I > had to change the harddisk
On a friends machine i created a fat32 partition from the freespace so that he could share data btwn debian and doze boots. Next reboot into xp and the thing reboots with a flitting msg about \windows\system32\xyz corrupt.Booting in safe mode worked. Removed the partition and the crap works again. Note I never touched the xp partition. MBR already had grub which works properly anyway. If u have doze trash round, backup before touching anything at all. > number in the boot.ini file and it worked. > I am not that experienced with grub so I do not know what changes > happened after I installed grub for the second time. May be someone > on the list can explain that :-) # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS # on /dev/hda2 title Windows NT/2000/XP root (hd0,1) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
