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I had Windows XP and RH2 installed onto different partitions on one hard drive and I had a grub menu at startup to choose my OS. I had to delete my Linux partition to free up space. When I did that, the computer starts up in a GRUB prompt now and I don't know how to get into windows. What should I type from there to load windows. Its on my first and only HD on the first partition. Thanks.
Originally posted by Kurzweil I don't have a working floppy drive anymore. There isn't a command to boot windows from grub?
There is, but you tossed your grub menu away. ;-)
Too much trouble every boot.
Stick the XP CD in and boot it. There's a "Recovery Centre" (I think that's what it's called) where you can recover (as in rewrite so Windoze will fire up) the MBR.
Simple as that.
Yeah, I could fix it after getting windows to start but before booting to the cd, it starts grub so even with my xp cd in the drive I can't get anything different than grub. If there is a way, could you enlighten me?
Originally posted by Kurzweil Yeah, I could fix it after getting windows to start but before booting to the cd, it starts grub so even with my xp cd in the drive I can't get anything different than grub. If there is a way, could you enlighten me?
This is a BIOS issue - get into the BIOS on restart (usually the DEL key while the message/logo is up.
Make the CD first in the list, hit F10, save it, and away you go.
From the grub prompt you can enter the commands from your grub.conf. Amend as appropriate, and hit enter after each line. Don't know that you can run fixmbr from Windows, but this should get you there.
The above commands at the Grub prompt did not work exactly as documented. I had the same scenario with Grub boot loader. Here is the syntax that worked for me:
I had XP and FC5 installed in two different partitions, and just deleted the FC5 partition from within Windows using Partition Magic. To complete the process, Partition Magic had to restart the computer, and when it boots it loads GRUB.
That would probably mean windows is screwed up. What you can do is boot to the windows CD, when it says "press enter to install windows or r to enter recovery console" hit enter and go on with the installing windows thing, then it'll pop up with a menu asking if you want to repair the current install of windows that it has detected on yoru system. Hit r (or whatever the key is) to do this and it'll basically rewrite all the actual windows files without erasing yoru files. There's a chance it might not catch that you have windows, in which case it'll dump you at a screen to partition your HD. If you get there, stuff's really screwed up and you'll probably have to completely reinstall windows.
I had XP and FC5 installed in two different partitions, and just deleted the FC5 partition from within Windows using Partition Magic. To complete the process, Partition Magic had to restart the computer, and when it boots it loads GRUB.
I had XP and FC5 installed in two different partitions, and just deleted the FC5 partition from within Windows using Partition Magic. To complete the process, Partition Magic had to restart the computer, and when it boots it loads GRUB.
How can I make an entry for Windows Server in Grub, I have both XP and Server on the same hard drive but I'd like to know if there's a way of having the option to directly boot Server.
My XP entry is
root (hd1,0)
save default
make active
map (hd0)(hd1)
map (hd1)(hd0)
chainloader +1
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