I lost Windows

[John Summerfield]

Antonio Olivares wrote:
> --- John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> Jason Taylor wrote:
>>> On 10/21/07, John Summerfield
>> <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:
>>> Yes, bugzilla #322401 addresses this, and Jeremy
>> mentioned that this
>>> is fixed in the latest update. As far as I know
>> (what I had to do) was
>>> just manually add the Vista partition to the
>> grub.conf and away I
>>> went.
>> I was dreading the thought of this going out
>> unfixed. Its a minor 
>> inconvenience for me, but you should see the
>> problems people have been 
>> having with grub, on F-list!  They'd be formatting
>> their disks, 
>> reinstalling Windows, swearing off Linux....
> 
> This would not be a wise thing to do.  They should

You know that, I know that. but there's a lot on F-L who don't. Take a 
look at the discussions in the past week!


> 
> This happened to me as well on a machine, I did not
> even noticed.  Then I wanted to boot Windows, and the
> grub entry was not there.  So I said to myself "oh
> shit", but I did what Jason said, manually added the
> entry to grub.conf and I was able to boot up windows
> again.  

I just typed in to the grub command line:
chainloader (hd0,0)+1
boot



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Cheers
John

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