FC4: grub no longer allows windows booting

[Noah]

> > Hi there,
> > 
> > here is what my fdisk is showing me.  do I need to get windows XP to fix
> > itself somehow?  I really dont know what to do at this point.
> > 
> > --- snip ---
> > 
> > # fdisk -l
> > 
> > Disk /dev/hda: 300.0 GB, 300090728448 bytes
> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 36483 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> > 
> >    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/hda1   *           1       36482   293041633+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> > 
> > Disk /dev/hdb: 300.0 GB, 300090728448 bytes
> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 36483 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> > 
> >    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/hdb1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
> > /dev/hdb2              14       36483   292945275   8e  Linux LVM
> ----
> Boot your Windows XP cd - choose 'Recovery mode' - (Console)
> 
> choose the Windows installation and put in the administrator password
> 
> then type
> 
> FIXBOOT
> 
> exit
> 
> Windows should boot after that.
> 
> Craig
> 

thats too easy.  let me try it. 

also is this Craig white from Alabama, by chance?

cheers,

Noah


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