Tom H wrote:
You're welcome. I hope that you have an actual Windows CD/DVD to use the above commands given that most manufacturers ship recovery CDs only that may or may not allow you to use these commands. :(
Maybe the mbr package is what we're looking for here. http://packages.debian.org/lenny/mbrFrom the manpage, the behavior of this loader is to chainload to the "default" partition (the one that has the boot flag, I guess) after one sec (configurable), or display a very basic prompt if a keypress occurs before (or if it fails).
In other words, it does the job -- the old-school way, but it works. -thib