Grub issues booting Win xp
Hi
I try to get my grub to boot my windows xp. I know that there is the
possibility to do it the other way round and let the windows boot menu start
grub. But I want to xp to be directly integrated into the grub menu.
The situation:
It all started with a strange xp installation. the first 10gb of the disk were
made an fat32 partition and the rest was made a extended partition with a
ntfs partition in it. I installed xp on the latter one.
then I installed debian sarge. i deleted the fat partition and used the space
for a ext3 and a swap partition.
unfortunately i made the mistake and let grub directly install in the mbr so
it killed the windows boot loader. the debian runs like a charm : )
but i need to bring the windows installation back to life.
I already tried
root (hd0,4)
chainloader +1
boot
in grub - but the screen just went black.
My partition table as seen in fdisk
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Disk /dev/hdc: 122.9 GB, 122942324736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14946 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 * 1 1167 9373896 83 Linux
/dev/hdc2 1296 14945 109643625 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdc3 1168 1294 1020127+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hdc5 1296 14945 109643593+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition table entries are not in disk order
-------------------------8<-----------------------
How can Windows be booted at all? I think that the windows bootloader must be
in the MBR?
Any help appreciated,
Kevin
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