GRUB Problems

David M. Carney carney1979 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 22 19:20:21 UTC 2005


On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:40:30 -0800, Matthew Purvis
<mattpurvis2001 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I set my system to be able to dual boot Warty or WinXP. The warty install
> works great, but am still having trouble setting up my wireless network.
> That is minor right now. The big problem is that now XP won't boot at all.
> when I choose to boot it i get the following : 
>  Booting "WIndows NT/2000/XP" 
>   
> root (hd0,0) 
>   Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7 
> savedefault 
> selectactive 
> chainloader +1 
>   
> I think the problem is with the filesystem type, but i don't know enough
> about this all yet to figure it out on my own. I am tearing through manuals
> trying to teach myself, but I need windows up and running to access the
> internet right now and that isn't happening. 
> How can I fix this? 
> Thanks, Matt 
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> 
Try this under your WinXP title line:

rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader  +1

David

P.S. I found that at /usr/share/doc/grub/examples on my Warty system.

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