[CentOS] Lost my win dual boot

Johnny Hughes johnny at centos.org
Tue Feb 26 15:03:58 UTC 2008


Stephen McManus wrote:
> Finally got my install working, Centos didn't recognise my m/board NIC 
> so I had to install another NIC. Now, I've lost the windows install. I 
> need it for my Walkman and Palm. Never, ever got any distro to see the 
> Tunsgsten E. I can see the Win in Grub but it says there's a file 
> missing, insert system disk. Where have I seen that before?
> Anyway, how do I get into Grub and what do I need to add to make win 
> bootable? Win is on sda2 amd Centos is on sda3 + 5. In the grub folder 
> all it says in the system map is  (hd0)     /dev/sda.
> Nothing else.
> Ta.
> 
> Steve.

You need an entry like this for windows:


title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1

(This is assuming that GRUB is on MBR and windows is all located on 
/dev/sda2)

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