hi!

i have a big problem with my windows 2000 and debian linux being installed on one harddrive.

i had win2k first installed and then installed debian. in the beginning, i always booted debian from floppydisk (witch worked fine) and win2k from harddrive.
i wanted to make them both be bootable from harddrive and tried lilo, wich didnt work at all.
then i tried a grub - bootfloppy from a friend wich worked great for booting win2k and debian as well.

then i downloaded and installed grub into the mbr and now it does boot debian from harddisk without problems but i cant boot windows 2000 anymore.

i doesnt even boot win2k from the grub - bootfloppy from that friend, wich worked before. i dont understand why.

heres my partition table:

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdd1 * 1 765 6144831 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdd2 893 2490 12835936 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdd5 893 1911 8185086 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdd6 1912 2471 4498168+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdd7 2472 2490 152586 82 Linux swap

and heres part of my /boot/grub/menu.lst:

title Windows
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

title Linux
root (hd0,5)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hdd6 ro

i already tried several other settings for the windows-entry, like
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
i tried with and without
makeactive
etc....

nothing does work.

what am i supposed to do in order to be able to boot into windows again????

thanks alot for any help in advance!

According to your partition table, your harddrive is a secondary slave (/dev/hdd).
So replace all the hd0 to hd3

i have only one harddisk, wich is jumpered wrong, i know
...but the /boot/grub/device.map knows it in the right way:

(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/hdd


i still cant boot into windows....i need help, please!!!!

maybe i should have mentioned that my computer resets straight away when i choose the "Windows" entry in the grub-start-menu, Linux boots without problem

Do you see an error message ?
Something like "NTLDR is missing".

This may be a winXP problem.
If you have the winXP CD, you can try using the "repair" option.
Don't forget to make a Linux boot disk, because the repair option overwrites the MBR.

Win2k might have to be on the first partition the first harddisk to boot.

From my research, normaly, Win2k does need to be before the 1024 sector limit to boot.

grub does, however, support LBA for support past that point. I'd feel that this wouldn't be the issue, but I haven't used linux nearly as much as I'd like to have. I'll leave this to the guru's around here

You can try this code instead:

thanks to all who tried to help me!

i think i killed my windows-installation somehow...i installed it completely new and now grub and debian work very fine together!