Re: Cannot boot xp

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Thierry Chatelet schrieb:

> About a week ago I installed a i386 testing machine, and enjoyed it. 
> But today I tried to boot xp and I got the following message from grub:
> Filesystem type unknown,  partition type 0x7.
> and it would not boot xp.
> I tried to go like the following:
> cfdisk and then change type to ntfs either 86 or 87.
> I then got the same message with the partition type updated to either 
> 86 or 87.
> I have not lost anything yet, I can brows the windowws partition.
> Can I fix that without re-installing xp?
> If not, can I re-install xp without losing debian? (I think I read 
> somewhere it is possible from within grub??)
> Thierry
Hi
I had the same problem of not being able to boot XP with the usual 
chailoader command.
I changed the disk type in the bios from auto to LBA. After rebooting 
everything went well.
May be this helps you too.
Wish you well
Lakshmanan