On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:24:33 +0200 Micha Feigin
<michf@post.tau.ac.il> wrote:
Hello,
A friend of mine tried to resize his windows partition using
partition magic and then proceeded to install fedora (don't know
the version but with kernel 2.6.5) which complained about some
problem and after the installation when grub came up it showed an
unknown os and would boot it, booted fine into fedora.
I later dumped fedora and installed debian (testing from the
netinst cd) for him, which he is rather happy with, although he
still needs his windows partition for the moment for some word
documents.
I tried booting windows from the debian grub (which correctly
recognized it as window). For the first time it started booting (I
killed it that time), and later on it just got stuck when booting
widows after showing
chainloader +1
I tried downloading ntfsprogs and running ntfsfix and also made
sure that it is marked as bootable. The partition is still there
and mountable.
any Idea what went wrong with the installation and how to fix it?
Thanks
Have you tried reinstalling GRUB? Sounds like the GRUB install when
installing Fedora was messed up someway or the other. Reinstall GRUB
and it should be fine.