Thank you, nooby. That is for Vista/2008/7 and I am using XP.nooby wrote:Here is the menu.lst code that Shinobar gave me and that actually did work.
You could at least try it. If it goes to teh wrong part you only have to gracefully shut down from windows.
Nothing wrong can happen as long as you don't say yes to any command they ask for to get completed.
I had same experience as you but did not go ahead with the recover process. I backed out of that one and asked Shinobar what to do instead and he came up with a working solution
# Windows
title Windows Vista/2008/7\nBoot up Windows Vista/2008/7 if installed
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader /bootmgr
As I get it this allow me to boot any OS on the machine as long as I get code to the initrd if it is a puppie or maybe initrd.lz if it is older type ubuntu.
My menu.lst was similar but chainloader pointing to ntldr. I tried both of these, same problem:
title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader /ntldr
title Windows XP
find --set-root --ignore-floppies /ntldr
chainloader /ntldr
But 'either' of these worked on another similarly configured PC, same partitions, etc.
-Bill