Bug#545157: grub-pc: After migration to GRUB2 WinXP crashes with Blue screen of death

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Samstag, den 05.09.2009, 14:24 +0000 schrieb giggz:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I know, the bug report is not directly related to debian...but the
> users have to be warned :
> So with the GRUB1 I don't have any problem to boot linux or winXP. I
> migrate to GRUB2 this morning; after the installation of os-prober,
> update-grub and reboot, winXP crashes with a blue screen of death 1
> second after the login window. I can't do anything...Is it a known
> proble, that GRUB2 and winXp are not "friend" or a configuration
> problem ?


No it's not a known problem.

> menuentry "Microsoft Windows XP Professionnel (on /dev/sda3)" {
> 	insmod ntfs
> 	set root=(hd0,3)
> 	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 62202d87202d6371
> 	drivemap -s (hd0) ${root}
> 	chainloader +1
> }

Change that to:

menuentry "Microsoft Windows XP Professionnel (on /dev/sda3)" {
        set root=(hd0,3)
        chainloader +1
}

though that shouldn't be the reason for it.

-- 
Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer