Hi,<br>
<br>
Couldn't you edit the grub.conf file to read something like:<br>
<br>
<pre>default=0<br>timeout=10<br>title Windows<br>rootnoverify (hd0,0)<br>chainloader +1<br>makeactive<br><br>(the grub command 'makeactive' may not be necessary for your installation)<br><br>or<br><br>try walking through the steps via the grub command line as shown here:
<br><br><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/DOS_002fWindows.html#DOS_002fWindows">http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/DOS_002fWindows.html#DOS_002fWindows</a><br><br></pre>
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)<br>
<pre>default=0<br>timeout=10<br>title Windows<br>rootnoverify (hd0,1)<br>chainloader +1<br>makeactive<br> <br></pre>
Also take a look at:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/linux-tutorials-howtos-reference-material/6527-howto-solve-boot-problems-grub.html">http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/linux-tutorials-howtos-reference-material/6527-howto-solve-boot-problems-grub.html
</a><br>
<a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+Win9x+Grub-HOWTO/proc.html#AEN54">http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+Win9x+Grub-HOWTO/proc.html#AEN54</a> (especially the MAP section)<br><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/DOS_002fWindows.html#DOS_002fWindows">
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/DOS_002fWindows.html#DOS_002fWindows</a><br>
<br>
hth,<br>
<br>
John<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ameel, Christopher</b> <<a href="mailto:cjameel@dcmsonline.com">cjameel@dcmsonline.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2">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.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2">One big hard drive
nothing special, should be simple right??</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2">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....</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2">puter
says:</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2">chainloader (hd0,0)
+1</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2">Then a blinking
"underscore" cursor and nothing happens.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2">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.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2">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</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2">All the windows
files are there and I've checked boot.ini like a thousand
times...</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2">Please
help!</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span>
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