I want to run windows, but in grub, it says error 13: cannot recognize file.

It works, but linspire doesnt know how to read it, what can I do??

I cant access windows at all, so is there a program I can install in linspire?

Please post your grub.conf file, which should be located in /boot/grub/grub.conf


Peace V

Im not sure if the menu.lst but here it is,

# Generated by jiffyboot version 7.0.71. If this file is edited, the
# system will stop modifying it. To allow the system to resume
# management of this file, remove it and run /sbin/jiffyboot

default=0
timeout=10
color cyan/green magenta/green
splashimage=/boot/grub/bootsplash.xpm.gz

instructions Use the %c and %c keys to select which entry is highlighted.
timeout_message Entry %d will be booted automatically in %d seconds.
title Linspire 5.0.347 on /dev/hdb7
root (hd1,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10 root=/dev/hdb7 rootdev=0x0347 ramdisk=32000 vga=0x311 splash=silent video=vesafb:nomtrr video=vesafb:nomtrr Diagnostics jiffymount=noatime resume2=swap:/dev/hdb7:0x8800@4096
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.10.gz
# (Boot priority: 102, mounted at /)

title Redetect
root (hd1,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10 root=/dev/hdb7 rootdev=0x0347 ramdisk=32000 noresume2 redetect video=vesafb:nomtrr video=vesafb:nomtrr Diagnostics jiffymount=noatime resume2=swap:/dev/hdb7:0x8800@4096
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.10.gz
# (Boot priority: 102, mounted at /)

title Diagnostics
root (hd1,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10 root=/dev/hdb7 rootdev=0x0347 ramdisk=32000 noresume2 single splash=0 Diagnostics video=vesafb:nomtrr video=vesafb:nomtrr Diagnostics jiffymount=noatime resume2=swap:/dev/hdb7:0x8800@4096
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.10.gz
# (Boot priority: 102, mounted at /)

title MS Windows® XP on /dev/hda5
root (hd0,5)
chainloader +1

ok, looks like to things need to be changed.

title MS Windows® XP on /dev/hda5
root (hd0,5) (This should be (hd0,4)
chainloader +1

Before chainloader +1 line, add the word makeactive. So this is what it should read.

title MS Windows XP on /dev/hda5
root (hd0,4)
makeactive
chainloader +1

Any editor should do the trick. you will need to be root to make this change.


Peace V

I did that, but this time a error 12 came up. So i tried

title MS Windows XP on /dev/hda5
root (hd0,1)
makeactive
chainloader +1

(changed root to 1 instead of 4)

but a screen with a "_" kept blinking on and off but didnt do anything after that. So progress?

try

root (hd0,0)


Peace V

THANK YOU, lol wow i didnt even think of 0 lol