"Bart Vantieghem" <bart@NOvantieghem.SPAM.net.invalid> wrote in message
newsan.2003.09.06.23.14.22.332219@NOvantieghem.S PAM.net.invalid...
> 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
>

Assuming the above was not a typo:
chainloader #+1
Lose the #

Try fixmbr and fixboot from a winxp install disk instead of fdisk /mbr.

When you squeezed the linux primary boot partition before windows you didn't
clobber windows, did you? It looks suspicious to me.

Styvaen.