Why not try installing grub in the MBR? It usually can boot both Windows XP and Linux without problems. If you were using a version of Windows that required UEFI then you night have a problem, but not with XP.On 05/08/14 03:36 AM, Artifex Maximus wrote:
Hello!
I have a Wheezy system shared with MS XP. GRUB is not in MBR but in Debian partition installed. Not recommended I know but basically works. Until last upgrade when my GRUB loader only writes GRUB then halts. Or at least not continue loading. No errors just stops. I have tried latest (7.6.0) Debian install disc Recovery function to reinstall grub with grub-install /dev/sda2 without success. Still just a GRUB line on screen when Debian partition is active. When I switch active partition back to XP it runs. I am able to mount sda2 from Debian installer and there is no fsck error.
So my MBR is good and there is some error in sda2 partition loader which I cannot recover with grub-install. Any idea where to go then?
Bye,
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