Re: windows won't boot anymore after installation of debian
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:22:24 -0800
Amit Uttamchandani <atu13439@csun.edu> wrote:
> 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.
>
Grub was reinstalled when I installed debian over fedora, it did boot once but
then failed again will try the fixboot from the next message
thanks
> Good Luck,
> Amit
>
>
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