yesterday everything worked fine. I didnt change or install/uninstall anything, just shut down as normal
this morning any attempt to select Windows from my grub menu results in a disk read error. I can read the disk from SuSE 10.0 so I dont think anything too drastic has happened, but I cant get into Windows. Any suggestions or am I going to have to re-install? if the latter, I think I might just take the plunge since I replaced my last Windows only application last week.
had this problem, something changed in /boot/grub/menu.lst
Have a look to see if it is pointing to the right partition
Reinstall grub.
Not meaning to hijack, but interested that youve replaced all your Windows apps with Linux ones. Is this in an office environment?
From a root terminal:
grub-install /dev/hda
Also your menu.lst entry for windows should look something like this:
title Windows XP at hda1
rootnoverify (hd0,0)#change these numbers if windows is on a different partition
chainloader +1
Quote from: DeltaZeroNot meaning to hijack, but interested that youve replaced all your Windows apps with Linux ones. Is this in an office environment?
not as such, its a home PC but Im a student so I do a fair amount of office style work on it. Im studying physics so Lyx/Latex beats Word hands down for report writing. The OO spreadsheet isnt as good as Excel but it does the job for what I need. When I need really good looking graphs I use GNUPlot.
Other than that my PC plays media and edits photos, both of which are handled admirably by apps which come with SuSE 10 as standard. The last thing I replaced the other day was the RAW converter for my Pentax DSLR, but having updated DCRAW it can now handle PEF files from the *istDL2 and all is right with my Linux world.