On 2009-07-11_18:14:48, Bernard Fay wrote: > Hi, > > I have a dual boot system divided between Windows XP and Lenny. > > Lenny is the king of my computer. But sometimes I still need to use > Windows. > > Since I setup Lenny on my box, grub does not boot Windows XP. > I have a hard time to find out why. > > Here is what we can find in menu.lst regarding Windows : > > title Windows XP > rootnoverify (hd2,0) > chainloader +1 > makeactive > > > When I try to load Windows, I have the following on screen: > > Booting 'Windows XP' > > rootnoverify (hd2,0) > chainloader +1 > makeactive > > > It hangs there and do nothing. Does someone can tell if something is wrong > in my configuration of grub. > I provided below my full grub configuration. > > ### menu.lst ### > default 0 > > timeout 5 > > color cyan/blue white/blue > > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-686 > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=/dev/mapper/lnxvg-rootlv ro > initrd /initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686 > > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-686 (single-user mode) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=/dev/mapper/lnxvg-rootlv ro > single > initrd /initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686 > > title Windows XP > rootnoverify (hd2,0) > chainloader +1 > makeactive > > ### end menu.lst ### > > > Thanks a lot, > Bernard
I'm not a expert on Windows, but I have succeeded several times in setting up dual boot, Lenny - XP recently. Something puzzles me about your situation-- In all my setups Windows was already there and it occupied TWO partitions. One was titled Windows Vista/Longhorn (loader). The second was titled Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition. These were already on the HD before I started installing Lenny and they were in the first two partitions, namely (hd0,0) and (hd0,1). When I added Lenny, the installer guided me to installing it in (hd0,2). How did you get Lenny to be the first partition? I think you should boot from a live CD and examine your HD with cfdisk. Is your Lenny really the first partition on the HD? If you actually have two partitions of Windows stuff, you should set up your grub to enable booting from either of them. The Longhorn partition is a crash recovery thingy, which I hope you never have to use, but... And maybe I'm just off-the-wall crazy wrong... HTH -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
