booting options

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Hi all,

I have Red Hat 7.2 and I use Grub.

I have a problem with it because even though the menu for choosing the OS I
want appears, and I can choose Windows, it appear an error message telling
me that something's wrong with the partition and it can't boot into Windows
but only Linux.

To boot into Windows, I need to boot with a Windows floppy disk, then to use
fdisk for setting the Windows partition as being the active partition.
Then I am able to boot from hard disk in Windows, but I need to use again
fdisk to set the Linux partition as active.

Do you have any idea what can I do to be able to boot from that Linux
bootloader?

I know the guy that installed me Linux didn't create a partition from
Windows, but it created it with a Linux program taking space from the
Windows partition.

In this case, I think this corrupted somehow my Windows partition.

Thank you for any help with this.

Teddy Center: http://teddy.fcc.ro/
Mail: orasnita@home.ro

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gil Andre" <gandre@arkeia.com>
To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: booting options


>
> Janina,
>
> On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 10:53:37 -0400 (EDT), Janina wrote:
> >
> > Gil:
> >
> > He may be in grub. We haven't established the boot loader yet. I don't
> > know about Mandrake defaults, but Red Hat now defaults to grub, not
lilo,
> > during installation.
>
> I am not sure Mandrake defaults to "grub". (I'll have to
> check this). On the other hand, if I understand grub
> configuration well, it's a little bit easier than lilo.
>
> In any case, Darragh did use the default Mandrake boot
> system, which boots Linux immediately.
>
> I'll quickly check the mandrake web site while waiting
> for Darragh's answer.
>
> Bye for now,
>
> --
>
> Gil Andre          gandre@arkeia.com
>          Technical Writer
> Arkeia Corp.   http://www.arkeia.com
>
>
>
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