Re: question (i am in a hurry)

[Jochen Hoenicke]

On Apr 18, Canavessi Carlos Martin wrote:
> Hello!
> I am an argentine user of grub since the first versions, and last night I
> was installing Debian 2.2 for the 5th time, and when I installed grub, I
> wrote this command:
> 
> grub-install /dev/hda1 (where you can notice the hda1 instead of hda)
> 
> * hda1 is windows partition
> * hda2 is swap linux partition
> * hda3 is ext2 linux partition
> 
> the thing is that now I cannot boot windows because it has the stage1.5
> there in the partition

To be exact, it's stage1.

> fdisk /mbr doesnt work because it regenerates the master boot record for
> the disk, not that partition

Try "sys c:" but first resolve the problem below.

> another thing is that dos fdisk reports the partition type as UNKNOWN and
> I cannot read it under dos although linux fdisk says it is actually a
> Win95 FAT32 (LBA) partition, and I can see it and Write/read onto it.

Is this the dos that comes with FAT32 capable Win95?  Older dos
versions can't read fat32.

  Jochen