WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW,

i dont know what i have been doing alllllll night, but I just copied and pased what you wrote and it opened.

I wrote the exact same thing like 1000 times before and it did not work.



I dont think i am finished yet. I guess i have to type that code now.

this is what the file says again:

____________________________________________________________________________________________________ __
# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Thu Jul 27 02:17:36 UTC 2006

color white/blue black/light-gray
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd0,0)/boot/message

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title SUSE Linux 10.1
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 vga=0x31a splash=silent showopts
initrd /boot/initrd

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy###
title Floppy
chainloader (fd0)+1

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- SUSE Linux 10.1
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3
initrd /boot/initrd
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The trick is that this time you were the root (super) user. That's what the su - does. Just be sure to type exit from the command prompt when you're done (you're not supposed to stay root for longer than you need to).

I was in root before too.

Anyways, thanks to everyone.

Let me see if I can modify it now.

can someone please check this and see if i have it all correct?

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# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Thu Jul 27 02:17:36 UTC 2006

color white/blue black/light-gray
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd0,0)/boot/message

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title SUSE Linux 10.1
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 vga=0x31a splash=silent showopts
initrd /boot/initrd

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy###
title Floppy
chainloader (fd0)+1

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- SUSE Linux 10.1
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3
initrd /boot/initrd

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: Windows XP###
title Microsoft Windows XP
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2
initrd /boot/initrd

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are you booting a linux titled "Microsoft Windows XP"?

shouldn't this be something like:

just thinking..

One question before trying it.
Why is it "(hd0,0)"? What are the zeroes for?

in (hdX,Y) the X is the number equivalent of hard disk letter minus one, example hda = hd0

the Y is the partition number - 1, example hda1 = hd0,0

open a console and type this:

su [ENTER]
[type your root password]
[ENTER]
vi /boot/grub/menu.lst

use the downarrow key till you get to the bottom of the file and type this:

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

hit [ESC]
type: :
type: wq
hit [ENTER]

reboot

I hope this works.

perhaps you can also exclude savedefault if you don't want windows xp to be the default entry when booting.

ok, i wrote what myates1980 wrote, i restarted the computer and at first i was happy that Xp was one of the choices, but when i pressed enter on it, there was an error. it said that something is not "executable". I think that in menu.lst, it should be specified where XP is.

should "hdo,1" be made into something else which directs it to C/Windows?

shouldn't that be hd0,1? anyway you can look at your current partition tables at /proc/partitions. base your windows partition on what you think is its size.

then convert the name to grub's format.

linapx,

What is the output of fdisk -l (that's L, not 1)? This will help us figure out what (hdx,y) should be.

I can't try it now. I think I typed something wrong and when I tried it after restarting the pc, I got an error message which said that there is no operating system.

Right now I am back to XP after reinstalling it. I'll put Linux on again and see what happens.

Thank you very much guys

do you mean you'll install a new system? perhaps you can still get your linux system back. can you boot a livecd? ...

boot to your livecd then from there you can try to install grub again.