GRUB does not load Windows XP

[Maxim]

you can go at this this way.... 

instead of getting grub to work you can use the windows bootloader... with 
the help of this little tool 
http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm

just install grub on the root partition , this wont solve your grub 
problem... but it will let you run a dual boot.

On 7/16/05, Weiers Coetser <coetserw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm sorry, I responded just now without seeing all the messages. I edited 
> menu.lst as suggested and got the following error messages. (This time it 
> did not freeze, it asked me to press a key and then returned me to the GRUB 
> menu)
> 
> Booting "That other Microspft XP OS"
> root (hd1,0)
> Filesystem type unkown, partition type 0x7
> 
> root noverify (hd1,0)
> map (hd0)(hd1)
> 
> Error 11: unrecognised device string
> 
> Press any key to continue.
> 
> --It seems XP is seeing through the lies i tell.
> 
> Sorry... can somebody give me some more adivce. (I added lba=32 on the top 
> of the menu.ls <http://menu.ls> file, but it does not seem to have made a 
> difference either, so I removed it again.)
> 
> Thanks
> Weiers
> 
> On 7/16/05, Weiers Coetser <coetserw at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi, thanks for the pointers so far...
> > 
> > >From my limited understanding WinXP is on the HD1,0 partition. Ubuntu 
> > is on HD0. (/Boot/grub/device.map indicates it as follows: (hd0) /dev/hda
> > (hd1) /dev/sda
> > 
> > 
> > The WinXP is installed on a SATA drive. Ubuntu is on an older IDE drive.
> > (When I started the whole install, the computer was booting from the 
> > SATA drive (which would have made it HD0), but when I installed UBUNTU, the 
> > installer only asked me if I wanted to install GRUB to the MBR. I responded 
> > positively, but it seems to have installed GRUB onto the first partion of 
> > HD1. (Whenever I booted, the computer would boot directly into Windows) It 
> > never gave me any option to indicate which partition contained the MBR. I 
> > solved that problem by setting my BIOS to boot from the IDE drive first 
> > (Which contains my UBUNTU partitions). I then re-installed ubuntu and now I 
> > can boot into Ubuntu. It gives the Windows option, but when I select it, it 
> > crashes. I can boot into windows by changing the boot device in the BIOS 
> > though.
> > 
> > OK... Here is my actual question. I do not see any GRUB config files 
> > under /ETC. My root directory does have a Boot directory and under that are 
> > a few files. The only file that seems to have "config" in it is 
> > config-2.6.10-5-38. Otherwise there is a grub directory and in it is the 
> > menu.lst file which seems to contain the menu items as well as the 
> > commands which result in the mentioned error messages.
> > 
> > Which one should I edit? (although all the references seems to be 
> > correct in the menu.lst file)
> > 
> > Where should I edit the LBA=32 in?
> > 
> > Thanks again.
> > 
> > 
> > On 7/16/05, Martin Schmeisser < schmeissermartin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Am Samstag, den 16.07.2005, 09:38 +0200 schrieb Weiers Coetser:
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > > I am having trouble getting GRUB to load Windows XP
> > > >
> > > > I get the following display:
> > > >
> > > > root (hd1,0)
> > > > Filesystem type unkown 
> > > > Parition typ 0x7
> > > > safedefault
> > > > makeactive
> > > > chainloader + 1
> > > >
> > > > then everything just freezes and I have to reboot.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > (I had problems to get grub working when I installed ubuntu. For 
> > > some 
> > > > reason grub would not be written to the MBR of my Windows drive, so 
> > > I
> > > > changed the bios setting to boot from the drive on which I wanted to
> > > > install Ubuntu. I installed ubuntu. It installed GRUB and detected 
> > > my 
> > > > windows system, but this is now where the above problem comes in.)
> > > >
> > > > Any help?
> > > 
> > > Hi there,
> > > 
> > > on which Hard drive and which partition number is your windows
> > > installed?
> > > 
> > > keep in mind that grub starts counting at 0 so if it is the first 
> > > harddrive on the first partition you would put root (hd0,0)...
> > > 
> > > hope that helps!
> > > 
> > > cheers, Martin
> > > 
> > > 
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