On 05/11/05, Simo Kauppi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The 'ntldr missing' could mean that it is really missing from the > Windows disk. I guess you can mount the Win disk from Linux and check if > the Win is missing some of its files.
Thank you Simo, I have tried all possible combinations in the menu.lst file but there's no way to let it raise. As you have suggested I have mounted the /dev/hdb disk under linux looking for the boot files but I can't see them, neither with ls nor with ls -a, since they usually are hidden in windows, but there's no trace of them. So here it is what i think now, and please let me know if I could be wrong: when I installed windows xp on the second drive, the boot files have been saved at the beginning of the first drive and got overwritten when I then installed Debian. > See for example http://www.ntfs.com/missing-corrupted-system-files.htm > for details. thanks, I'm going to look for a way to restore windows boot files. > Also make sure that you have the /boot/grub/device.map file with > (hd0) /dev/hda > (hd1) /dev/hdb > in it. it's ok > Also you can try to comment out the 'boot' at the end. I'm not sure it > is needed, even though I don't know if it can cause any harm either. > > This is what I used, when I had Windows in /dev/hdb. I can't remember > why I did it that way, but it worked for me... > title Microsoft Windows XP > rootnoverify (hd1,0) > map (hd0,0) (hd1,0) > map (hd1,0) (hd0,0) > savedefault > makeactive > chainloader +1 I have tried your really same grub script but it still doesn't work Thank you a lot, ilvecchioalex
