Andy wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 27 September 2005 12:42, Tom Pfeifer wrote:
> > Since your WinXP on /dev/hda1 is a FAT32 partition, one thing that might
> > work is to use the backup boot sector that is kept on FAT32 file systems
> > to restore the WinXP boot sector on /dev/hda1.
> >
> > dd if=/dev/hda
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 12:42, Tom Pfeifer wrote:
> Since your WinXP on /dev/hda1 is a FAT32 partition, one thing that might
> work is to use the backup boot sector that is kept on FAT32 file systems
> to restore the WinXP boot sector on /dev/hda1.
>
> dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hda1 bs=512 count
Andy wrote:
>
> On Monday 26 September 2005 3:17, Dennis Stosberg wrote:
> > Windows XP is on /dev/hda, which is (hd0,0) in GRUB's notation. So,
> > if you install the GRUB boot sector into /dev/hda1, you overwrite
> > Windows XP's boot sector in that partition. That means you won't be
> > able
On Monday 26 September 2005 3:19, Roby wrote:
> Add the hide/unhide commands shown below:
> > title Windows NT/2000/XP
>
> hide (hd0,4)
> unhide (hd0,0)
>
> > root(hd0,0)
> > savedefault
> > makeactive
> > chainloader +1
> >
> > title Windows 95/98/Me
>
> hide
On Monday 26 September 2005 3:17, Dennis Stosberg wrote:
> Windows XP is on /dev/hda, which is (hd0,0) in GRUB's notation. So,
> if you install the GRUB boot sector into /dev/hda1, you overwrite
> Windows XP's boot sector in that partition. That means you won't be
> able to boot Windows XP at all
Add the hide/unhide commands shown below:
> title Windows NT/2000/XP
hide (hd0,4)
unhide (hd0,0)
> root(hd0,0)
> savedefault
> makeactive
> chainloader +1
>
> title Windows 95/98/Me
hide (hd0,0)
unhide (hd0,4)
> root(hd0,4)
> savedefault
> makea
Am 26.09.2005 um 14:17 schrieb Andy:
> Anyway, here is the deal:
> I have a few drives, one with win98 (don't ask!), one with win xp, and one
> with Debian Sid. I had grub happily booting everything until recently when
> WinXP experienced some HDD corruption and I had to do a repair. Obviously,
I'm sure that to many people on this list, not being able to run WinXP would
be considered a good thing (TM), but trust me, I have lots of important
reasons for needing it :)
Anyway, here is the deal:
I have a few drives, one with win98 (don't ask!), one with win xp, and one
with Debian Sid. I
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