I used the beta installer from 7.04.04 installing a sarge system.
I took the installers advice installing grub to mbr.
Deb boots fine but choosing xp stops at a blank screen after "chainloader +1".
I've checked sample configs online and what Deb provided looks like it should work just fine.

thanks for any help

title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.6-1-k7
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.6-1-k7 root=/dev/hda2 ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.6-1-k7
savedefault
boot

title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.6-1-k7 (recovery mode)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.6-1-k7 root=/dev/hda2 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.6-1-k7
savedefault
boot

title Other operating systems:

title XP
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
savedefault
chainloader +1

You must simply add the word "boot" to the xp-entry, just like debian-entries. That's all .

That makes me

Thank you.

Well I was hoping for the best when I read the response at work.

But after adding boot it still doesn't work and adds 'filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7'.

What Ive read so far is that its a bug in the beta installer.

If anyone knows a work around i would appreciate it.

this is the essential part of my menu.lst

title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.26-1-686
root (hd0,5)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.26-1-686 root=/dev/hda7 ro
initrd /initrd.img-2.4.26-1-686
savedefault
boot

title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.26-1-686 (recovery mode)
root (hd0,5)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.26-1-686 root=/dev/hda7 ro single
initrd /initrd.img-2.4.26-1-686
savedefault
boot

title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.26-1-386
root (hd0,5)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.26-1-386 root=/dev/hda7 ro
initrd /initrd.img-2.4.26-1-386
savedefault
boot

title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.26-1-386 (recovery mode)
root (hd0,5)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.26-1-386 root=/dev/hda7 ro single
initrd /initrd.img-2.4.26-1-386
savedefault
boot

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title Other operating systems:
root


# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/hda1
title Windows NT/2000/XP
root (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

Instead of root (hd0,0), try rootnoverify (hd0,0). That should get rid of the filesystem problem, (I hope).

Chris