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

[john]

Well its possible that Grub thinks sata drives are like scsi drives. In
which case you could try something like this:

default=0
timeout=10
title Windows
rootnoverify (sd0,1)
chainloader +1
makeactive


John



On 3/7/07, Ameel, Christopher <cjameel at dcmsonline.com> wrote:
>
>  Yup, verified the GRUB lines.  The ONLY thing I can think of is this new
> HP PC uses SATA drives plugged directly into the mobo instead of IDE's.
> Would the commands in GRUB change at all for that?  Linux booted fine but I
> never did get win back...
>
> __________________________________________
> Chris Ameel
> cjameel at dcmsonline.com
>
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* john [mailto:lists.john at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 07, 2007 3:42 PM
> *To:* Ameel, Christopher
> *Cc:* edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> *Subject:* Re: Installed Edubuntu, now, Windows won't boot....
>
> 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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> > cjameel at dcmsonline.com
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