Bug#313648: marked as done (grub fails to boot Windows)

Thu Jul 21 11:03:15 UTC 2005

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From: Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de>
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Subject: grub fails to boot Windows
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Package: grub
Version: 0.95+cvs20040624-17
Severity: important

Hi!

I have tried and failed miserably to set up dual booting between Windows
XP and Debian Sarge with grub.  I tried installing Windows on NTFS and
FAT32 partitions, I recreated the partition table with fdisk, cfdisk,
sfdisk and the Windows installer, all to no avail.  Every time I enter
the grub menu and boot Windows nothing happens, grub prints the commands
it runs and the machine hangs there.  I also tried booting with lilo, no
improvement.  Entering the commands by hand on the grub command line
does not help.

I'm completely stumped.  The task should be simple but it's not working
at all, so I have come to suspect a bug in grub or a failure to cope
with my particular hardware.

setup:

ASUS P4GE-MX motherboard BIOS 1005
Maxtor 6E40L0 HDD

10GB  primary partition /dev/hda1 NTFS/FAT32 Windows XP
30GB  primary partition /dev/hda2 ext3 Sarge
512MB primary partition /dev/hda3 swap

entry from menu.lst:

title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader  +1

If there is any more info I can provide, I will be glad to do so.

Regards

Diego

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages grub depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5                 5.4-4        Shared libraries for terminal hand

-- no debconf information

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Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 12:37:37 +0200
From: Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de>
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Subject: problem resolved
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Hi,

sorry for bothering you, the problem was solved by setting the harddisks
to LBA mode in the BIOS.  This one cost me a lot of hours, if it should
get reported repeatedly you might warn about it in the documentation
somewhere.

Thanks for your patience

Diego