[KLUG Members] debian beta 4 install with grub dual boot

[Bruce Smith]

> I installed debian in an attempt to dual boot my laptop. The new beta says 
> it will detect other OS (but didn't detect my XP install) so I figured...no 
> biggie...just add it to the menu.lst in grub. I had a Mandrake 10 install 
> that I blew out and put debian in its place. I had previously had SuSE 9 on 
> it before that. 
> 
> I checked the lilo.conf in mandrake before I installed Debian so I know XP 
> is on /dev/hda1. I set up grub like so (as per documentation) :
> title WinXP
> root (hd0,1) (linux is set up under (hd0,2) so I figured XP install would 
> just be a change from 2->1)
> makeactive
> chainloader+1 (no idea what this is for, but docs say to do it) 

That last line should contain a space before the plus:  "chainloader +1"

> Now when I boot I get an error 13 which grub says is a filesystem error. 
> 
> Any ideas as to how I can get back into my XP system please!!!!?? 
> 
> I know it is all fine because I was just dual booting XP/Mandrake this 
> morning. 

You can try this:  http://lwn.net/Articles/86835/

The article is about Fedora, but I've heard rumors that the problem
exists in other distro's too.

 - BS