Grub on dual boot

[Thomas Kaiser]

Why just boot from a DOS bootfloppy for flashing the BISO?

I don't know what you did with your partitions. Maybe grub looks at the 
"wrong" /boot/grub/menu.lst

Just hit hte c key when grub loads ( I think its the c key for command 
line). I didn't use this lately. And then enter the folling commands if 
your windows is still on hd0,0 (1. partition, 1. drive). After each line 
you have to hit ENTER:

rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
boot

Thomas

Art Alexion wrote:
> I have this entry.  It used to work (I think, as I can't remember the 
> last time I booted Windows; maybe when /dev/hda2 held my Ubuntu-replaced 
> Red Hat 7.3 distro.) but now it doesn't.  I wanted to flash the BIOS and 
> the software for flashing requires DOS.
> 
> Art
> 
> Thomas Kaiser wrote:
> 
>> Add the following lines to the file /boot/grub/menu.lst
>>
>> # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a 
>> non-linux OS
>> # on /dev/hda1
>> title           Windows NT/2000/XP
>> root            (hd0,0)
>> savedefault
>> makeactive
>> chainloader     +1
>>
>> If your windows is on the C partition on the first drive, this will 
>> work. If not change the line "root". hd0 -> first drive. ,0 -> first 
>> partition
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