On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:24:33 +0200 Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello, > > A friend of mine tried to resize his windows partition using partition magic > and then proceeded to install fedora (don't know the version but with kernel > 2.6.5) which complained about some problem and after the installation when > grub > came up it showed an unknown os and would boot it, booted fine into fedora. > > I later dumped fedora and installed debian (testing from the netinst cd) for > him, which he is rather happy with, although he still needs his windows > partition for the moment for some word documents. > > I tried booting windows from the debian grub (which correctly recognized it as > window). For the first time it started booting (I killed it that time), and > later on it just got stuck when booting widows after showing > > chainloader +1 > > I tried downloading ntfsprogs and running ntfsfix and also made sure that it > is > marked as bootable. The partition is still there and mountable. > > any Idea what went wrong with the installation and how to fix it? > > Thanks > > Have you tried reinstalling GRUB? Sounds like the GRUB install when installing Fedora was messed up someway or the other. Reinstall GRUB and it should be fine. Good Luck, Amit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
