GRUB Problems

alex radsky at ncia.net
Sat Jan 22 19:23:23 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 10:40 -0800, Matthew Purvis 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

Mine is set up like this: (in /boot/grub/menu.lst)


title       Windows XP  (C:   hda1)
root        (hd0,0)
savedefault
mkeactive
chainloader   +1

and it boots fine.  The file system is   ext3

alex, the OF





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