dual boot - xp behaves strange

[Rares Vernica]

Hi,

I managed to solve it.

I just removed the "makeactive" line from the Windows XP boot section in 
the Grub config file.

It works now.

Thanks,
Ray


Derek Broughton wrote:
> Dana J. Laude wrote:
> 
>> Rares Vernica wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I tried the changes that you suggested. The Linux partition boots OK.
>>> The Windows partition does *NOT* boot. I tried with "root" and also
>>> "rootnoverify".
>> Rares,
>>
>> Try this link:
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=329664
> 
> I don't see anything there that can help.
> 
> Googling for 'grub "Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition"' helps, but
> admittedly not much :-(
> 
> One suggestion is just that the MBR is not correct - which may well be true,
> since Windows seems to be messing with it - and just
> rerun "grub-install /dev/hda" (or whatever your device name is).