I had two NTFS partitons - one for Window$ Vista and the second for movies, music, etc. I decided two install Linux. Since there was no free space left, I resized the second partiton with ntfsresize (later I discovered that it wasn't a good idea, but still - it wasn't the Window$ partition I resized) and and created a partition for Linux with fdisk. So, I installed Linux on that partition. Well, but the problem is - the Window$ Vista doesn't boot anymore. It just shows a black screen when I try to boot it.

This the relevant part of /boot/grub/menu.lst:

Well do not quote me on this but I think grub will not boot of you put linux in a partition that is over the 2400 cylinder mark on the hard drive!
I think!!?

Take the "$" out of the name. There is probably some parameter expansion that is breaking things. As long as the Windows Vista partition is the first one, you should have no problems using GRUB.

try 'norootverify (hd0,0)' instead of 'root (hd0,0)'

It's 'rootnoverify'.

Try:

Or:

If you are feeling experimental and actually want the dollar sign in there:

I am not sure if the $ is the problem or not, nor if the backslash will print the actual character. The backlash usually prints literally whatever character is after it in most command lines.

Hmm, actually I posted somewhat wrong info. Didn't paste the config, relied on my memory (mistake). This is how it actually looks:

Did you try replacing 'rootnoverify (hd0,0)' with 'root (hd0,0)'?

The grub documentation does describe exactly how to boot Windows. The trick is that grub must hand-off control to Windows' own boot-loader to finish the startup process... which it is fully equipped to do. When set-up according to the published directions it works flawlessly.