Installed Edubuntu, now, Windows won't boot....

[john]

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 <cjameel at dcmsonline.com> 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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