Problems starting Windows XP after gentoo installation Hi group,
I have installed gentoo for about a few months now and I really love it,
but there is a "small" problem. I cannot boot Windows XP anymore.
After the installation of gentoo, I didn't check to see if windows still
worked, since I normally don't need this OS to get my work done, until now.
I have to work on a new project, which uses Visual Studio .NET, so I tried
to start Windows XP from the grub menu, but it failed to do so.
Then I tried to do a "fdisk /mbr" (I started the laptop with an old
windows '98 boot disk), but this didn't restore the Win mbr (I think)
So my question is, can someone tell me what to do? I don't want to
reinstall my computer again, just to work with windows for only a few
months...
Some information:
Partition table:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 2 16033+ de Dell Utility
/dev/hda2 3 8 48195 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 * 9 859 6835657+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda4 860 3648 22402642+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 860 2453 12803773+ b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda6 2454 3577 9028498+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 3578 3648 570276 82 Linux swap
My grub.conf
timeout 30
default 0
splashimage=(hd0,1)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
# For booting GNU/Linux
title = GNU/Linux
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21 root=/dev/hda6 vga=794 hdb=ide-scsi
# For booting Windows NT or Windows95
title = WinXP
root (hd0,2)
makeactive
chainloader #+1
Thanks in advance,
Bart |