Long story short, I can boot to Debian but not WinXP. Long story follows...
It's been about 4 days since I installed Debian amd64 Lenny and 4 days since I was able to boot to WinXP. I've spent most of that time crawling google looking for an answer to my problem. As such, I've provided what I think is all the information that someone would need to help me (if not, please ask). FYI, I'm very new to Linux but not to Microsoft/Windows.
First off, I have 1 SATA hard drive that has WinXP and Debian on it:
fdisk -l output:
GRUB appeared to install just fine and boots Debian with no problems whatsoever. The problem is when I go to boot WinXP, I get the following:Code:Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x9ef8fc24 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 97262 781256983+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 97263 98169 7285477+ 83 Linux /dev/sda3 98170 121601 188217540 5 Extended /dev/sda5 99077 121601 180932031 93 Amoeba /dev/sda6 98170 99076 7285414+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris Partition table entries are not in disk order
The relevant portion of my menu.lst file is as follows:Code:root (hd0,0) Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7 savedefault makeactive chainloader +1
Here's the output of the grub geometry (hd0) command:Code:title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-amd64 root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-amd64 root=/dev/sda2 ro quiet initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-amd64 title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-amd64 (single-user mode) root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-amd64 root=/dev/sda2 ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-amd64 ### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST # This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian # ones. title Other operating systems: root # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS # on /dev/sda1 title Microsoft Windows XP Professional root (hd0,0) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1
I've tried switching root to rootnoverify with no success.Code:geometry (hd0) drive 0x80: C/H/S = 0/255/63, The number of sectors = 1953525168, /dev/sda Partition num: 0, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7 Partition num: 1, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 Partition num: 4, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x93 Partition num: 5, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x82
I've already tried running FIXMBR and FIXBOOT in the WinXP recovery console which completely FUBR'd everything. Wasn't able to boot XP or GRUB or Linux so I ended up reinstalling Linux to get the GRUB boot menu back.
I've also tried banging my head on the desk. No results as of yet
If anyone has any idea on how to get my system dual booting with XP and Debian I'd LOVE to hear them. I'm pretty much at my wits end.
Thanks!!!
-Mystick





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