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grub2 , does not find the windows XP ...

sda2 is normally xp windows, but it installs a wrong partition type, and when I apply the mbr.bin, it works again :(
with grub2, nope, it says:

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autochk not found

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# fdisk  -l



Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk identifier: 0x0005c9c1



  Device Boot      Start        End      Blocks  Id  System

/dev/sda1  *          1        784    6290896+  83  Linux

Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.

/dev/sda2            784        2823    16382976  af  HFS / HFS+

/dev/sda3            2823        7296    35929089    5  Extended

/dev/sda5            2823        6659    30809088  83  Linux

/dev/sda6            6659        7296    5118976  82  Linux swap / Solari

and when I mount /dev/sda2, I get something completely all right:

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ls /mnt/windows/
AUTOEXEC.BAT CONFIG.SYS IO.SYS NTDETECT.COM pagefile.sys System Volume Information
boot.ini Documents and Settings MSDOS.SYS ntldr Program Files WINDOWS

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/dev/sda2 on /mnt/windows type fuseblk (rw,allow_other,blksize=4096)

If I put the mbrofxp.bin (bs=512 count=1), then xp boots well :) but no grub2 :( so no linux :(

hi

Have you used some kind of partition tool on that hard drive or a special boot manager in the past?

IMHO windows should not be on a hfs partition

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HFS_Plus

which may explain why grub2 does not use os-prober on it.

2) That you can do something and then get xp to boot? suggests its your MBR that is faulty probably from a third party software interference.

3) The general consensus is to have windows on first partition....=c and install linux on later editions.

4) Try editting your /etc/grub.d/40_custom using root powers and add an entry something like

menuentry "Chainload partititon 2" {
set root=(hd0,2)
chainloader +1
}

then run, with root powers

Code:

update-grub