Fixing Windows Boot (Was: Re: Newbie Install Question)

[Bob Nielsen]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 08:50:59AM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 10:12 -0600, Tab Gilbert wrote:
> 
> > I guess I will have to find a windows machine and look for another
> > distribution with it included. Knoppix is way over my head.  More
> > likely put windows (grub ate it) back on cause other folks using the
> > machine want to do "normal" things with it.  If Ubuntu is the best
> > distribution for "converts"  Sir Bill appears to be safe.  It sucks
> > cause I like the philosophy of the Ubuntu folks.
> 
> I'm no grub guru (it took me a couple of hours to get debian, ubuntu and
> win98 booting properly together since I had personally screwed it up),
> but try adding 
> 
> # This entry automatically added for a non-linux OS
> # on /dev/hda1
> title           Windows 95/98/Me
> root            (hd0,0)
> savedefault
> makeactive
> chainloader     +1
> 
> to the end of /boot/grub/menu.lst.
> 
> This should allow you to boot windows.
> 
> (Obviously I'm not using winxp, but the stanza should be the same I
> would think)
> 

It works for BeOS also.