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madcow

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Registered: 2007-11-19

Posts: 8

Cant boot into WinXP [SOLVED]

Just wanna say I love these forums with all the people willing to help

Anyway, I've got this problem with Grub and I can't access WinXP. When I press enter in grub it just hangs.
I've checked the wiki page for dual boting Arch and WinXP but to avail.

My "menu.lst" file says:

title Windows
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

I've changed the (hd1,0) to different numbers also but that didn't work at all. It just hangs every time I try to access Windows. I can boot up fine if I change the bootup sequence in the BIOS.
I've also checked with "fdisk -l" the command if the (hd1,0) was correct and it was. My ntfs partition is on /dev/sdb1.

I'm out of ideas Any help would be grateful

Last edited by madcow (2007-12-20 19:27:58)

Misfit138

Misfit Emeritus

From: USA

Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 4,189

Re: Cant boot into WinXP [SOLVED]

What kind of drive/partition scheme are you using? Windows/Arch on same/different drives?
Post the contents of /boot/grub/menu.lst

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xploded101

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-03-29

Posts: 11

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Re: Cant boot into WinXP [SOLVED]

Windows will only boot from the first primary partition, try this

title Windows XP Pro
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
root (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

madcow

Member

Registered: 2007-11-19

Posts: 8

Re: Cant boot into WinXP [SOLVED]

Thanks to both of you, especially xploded101 It worked like a charm...

Thanks man!