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Grub problem

  Date: Nov 29    Category: Unix / Linux / Ubuntu    Views: 397
  

I have a computer dual booted with Windows XP and Ubuntu 10.04. It was
working properly until we had a power outage while the computer was
running Linux. When I tried to boot into the Windows disk, I get an
error 11: unrecognized device string.I also noted that instead of
showing Windows as the last entry, it shows other operating system. Part
of the grub is copied here:
# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title Other operating systems:
root

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Answer #1    Answered On: Nov 29    

Are you using grub legacy instead of grub2? ie. is the file menu.lst instead
of grub.cfg

Note: Grub2 lists the first partition as 1 and not zero as in grub legacy.
Devices are unchanged.

My grub from MEPIS entry (the only grub legacy distro I have installed)
looks like this:

title Windows XP Media Center Edition at sda1
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

 
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