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Re: Grub issues booting Win xp



Hi,

I am sorry that I didn't make this clear. According to MS' document, FIXBOOT fixes the boot sector of the partition, not the master boot record. Anyway, FIXBOOT + FIXMBR will solve the boot problem of Windows XP for the most of time, and then you can try other methods to restore grub. One way that I usually use is to boot computer with Debian installation disc, change to console instead of setup interface, mount the root partition, change the root and use grub-install to fix the boot of Linux. Good luck!

Guang

From: Kevin Börgens <kevin@boergens.de>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
CC: "Guang Zhu" <zeegrr@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Grub issues booting Win xp
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 00:55:57 +0200

Hi

> If you are sure that the grub settings are OK, then try to boot your
> computer with XP installation disc, select R for recover, log onto your
> Windows installation in console mode and try typing "FIXBOOT", then reboot.
I don't see what this would help. I want to keep grub as the main bootloader
and this would just overwrite grub with the win xp booloader.

Have fun,
       Kevin


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