Arch Linux

spacePigeon

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Registered: 2008-07-01

Posts: 6

Grub won't boot Windows, just takes me back to the grub menu

I recently installed arch_64 now I cant boot into my XP partition. I don't get any errors, it simply takes me right back to the grub menu then boots into arch.

Here is grub/menu.lst

# Config file for GRUB - The GNU GRand Unified Bootloader
# /boot/grub/menu.lst

# DEVICE NAME CONVERSIONS 
#
#  Linux           Grub
# -------------------------
#  /dev/fd0        (fd0)
#  /dev/hda        (hd0)
#  /dev/hdb2       (hd1,1)
#  /dev/hda3       (hd0,2)
#

#  FRAMEBUFFER RESOLUTION SETTINGS
#     +-------------------------------------------------+
#          | 640x480    800x600    1024x768   1280x1024
#      ----+--------------------------------------------
#      256 | 0x301=769  0x303=771  0x305=773   0x307=775
#      32K | 0x310=784  0x313=787  0x316=790   0x319=793
#      64K | 0x311=785  0x314=788  0x317=791   0x31A=794
#      16M | 0x312=786  0x315=789  0x318=792   0x31B=795
#     +-------------------------------------------------+

# general configuration:
timeout   5
default   0
color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue

# boot sections follow
# each is implicitly numbered from 0 in the order of appearance below
#
# TIP: If you want a 1024x768 framebuffer, add "vga=773" to your kernel line.
#
#-*

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/bf96c1b3-4205-460f-a7bd-29cb48951148 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26.img

# (1) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux Fallback
root   (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/bf96c1b3-4205-460f-a7bd-29cb48951148 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26-fallback.img

# (1) Windows
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

and here is the output from fdisk-l

Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x5ebb5ebb

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        7649    61440561    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2            7650       10688    24410767+  83  Linux
/dev/sda3           10689       11417     5855692+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4           11418       38913   220861620   83  Linux

any help on this would be great.
Thanks in advance!!!!!

spacePigeon

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Registered: 2008-07-01

Posts: 6

Re: Grub won't boot Windows, just takes me back to the grub menu

By the way, I installed grub to sda1.

droog

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Registered: 2004-11-18

Posts: 877

Re: Grub won't boot Windows, just takes me back to the grub menu

By the way, I installed grub to sda1.

It's been awhile since ive had to install grub but if windows is on sda1 why would you install grub there?
I think you probably overwrote your windows bootloader.

if you have the windows cd you can boot to the recovery console and do FIXMBR and FIXBOOT. i would google and find the right steps to do this,
as i haven't done it in a few years.

spacePigeon

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Registered: 2008-07-01

Posts: 6

Re: Grub won't boot Windows, just takes me back to the grub menu

Ok, fixed bootsector in XP. Reinstalled grub to sda. All is good now.

Thank you!!!