Grub not starting Windows

[Keven Ring]

antonio montagnani wrote:

> 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
>>>   
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>  
>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
>>>
>>>
>>> here is the ouput of df command
>>> 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
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>>  
>>
>> Phil Schaffner
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>>  
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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
>
That you need to become root....

Items that are in /sbin /usr/sbin *usually* are meant to be run as root.

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