Grub not starting Windows

antonio montagnani anto.montagnani at virgilio.it
Fri Feb 6 21:43:26 UTC 2004


Phil Schaffner wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 04:00, antonio montagnani wrote:
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>>title DOS
>>rootnoverify (hd0,0)
>>chainloader +1
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>This boot stanza looks a bit weird - the 2nd and 3rd lines
>conventionally start with whitespace (a tab), but can't see anything in
>the docs that says it is REQUIRED, and don't want to reboot to find out
>empirically right now.  The missing "makeactive" line suggested earlier
>in the thread (see also "grub info") is more likely to be the problem.
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>>here is the ouput of df command 
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>>Filesystem        blocchi di   1K   Usati Disponib. Uso% Montato su
>>/dev/hdb2             14152372   2977916  10455548  23% /
>>/dev/hdb1               101086     12533     83334  14% /boot
>>none                    127504         0    127504   0% /dev/shm
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>>Fdisk will follow as he didn't find the command and it was too late last night.........anyway he doesn't remember any deletion of files or bad crash....
>>Yes, he could boot both Fedora and Windows.
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>Check to see if /dev/hda1 is active when you get the fdisk output.  IIRC
>some versions of Windoze get unhappy if they are not the active
>partition.  If the behavior changed when you did the Fedora upgrade,
>that may be a clue.
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>Phil Schaffner
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Results of

[visto at localhost visto]$ /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hda
Impossibile aprire /dev/hda (i.e. Impossible to open /dev/hda translated from Italian..)
[visto at localhost visto]$


What does it mean???

Tnx

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