Re: WTF, GRUB cannot boot VISTA, HELP!!!

On Feb 26, 12:34 am, Pep <pepaltavi...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader (hd0,1)+1

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lmao, I have just solved the problem so please don't all rush to tell
me how simple the answer is ;)

The answer is that the rootnoverify command is wrong, it should be
rootnoverify (hd0,1)

Yet this is the value that open suse yast places in the menu.lst every
time I reconfigure!!!

Guess this shows me 2 things, I simply do not know enough about how
grub works and I have become too soft over the years in blindly
trusting the distro tools. I've been toying with the idea of changing
that setting for the last couple of days but I did not trust my own
logical intuition enough. Instead I've been swapping the mbr by hand
using a combination of the rescue disk and dd for the last couple of
days :D

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As for the partition errors showing up in cfdisk and parted, I don't
know what to think of them and will probably ignore them as they are
on the Vista partition so no biggy if I lose it. I've tested the drive
in both linux and vista with no errors. The kernel is quite happy to
mount this partition and let me use it, so bleh ...

To think all this started because I simply wanted to compare the frame
rates in Guild Wars between Vista and Wine, lol
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