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TechLion
Joined: 12 Jul 2012
#1
Hey all!

I recently installed the pre-final release of antix-12 and there's a poblem. I tried booting into windows to go and game with some friends but it gave an error when I selected it in GRUB. I allready forgot what it says (my memory is bad, I know) so I'll reboot now to write it down.

Any help is appreciated!

Edit: the error message was: Error11: Unrecognised device string.

Best regards,
TechLion
anticapitalista
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#2
Post contents of /boot/grub/menu.lst

and output of

inxi -plou

and tell up where windows is.
anticapitalista
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#3
I have to go now, but I'm sure others can help out.
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TechLion
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#4
Ok, here is menu.list:

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timeout 10
color cyan/blue white/blue
foreground ffffff
background 0639a1

gfxmenu /boot/grub/message

title antiX at sda7, kernel 3.3.5-antix.1-486-smp
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.3.5-antix.1-486-smp root=/dev/sda7 nomce quiet nosplash nouveau.modeset=0 vga=791 
initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.3.5-antix.1-486-smp
boot

title Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition at sda1
map (hd0) 
map  (hd0)
rootnoverify ,0)
chainloader +1

### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
## lines between the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST markers will be modified
## by the debian update-grub script except for the default options below

## DO NOT UNCOMMENT THEM, Just edit them to your needs

## ## Start Default Options ##
## default kernel options
## default kernel options for automagic boot options
## If you want special options for specific kernels use kopt_x_y_z
## where x.y.z is kernel version. Minor versions can be omitted.
## e.g. kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro
##      kopt_2_6_8=root=/dev/hdc1 ro
##      kopt_2_6_8_2_686=root=/dev/hdc2 ro
# kopt=root=UUID=710c2ba7-ae5e-481f-b7ef-0e71f4ffa2b8 ro
# kopt_2_6=root=UUID=710c2ba7-ae5e-481f-b7ef-0e71f4ffa2b8 ro nosplash quiet

## default grub root device
## e.g. groot=(hd0,0)
# groot=(hd0,6)

## should update-grub create alternative automagic boot options
## e.g. alternative=true
##      alternative=false
# alternative=true

## should update-grub lock alternative automagic boot options
## e.g. lockalternative=true
##      lockalternative=false
# lockalternative=false

## additional options to use with the default boot option, but not with the
## alternatives
## e.g. defoptions=vga=791 resume=/dev/hda5
# defoptions=

## should update-grub lock old automagic boot options
## e.g. lockold=false
##      lockold=true
# lockold=false

## Xen hypervisor options to use with the default Xen boot option
# xenhopt=

## Xen Linux kernel options to use with the default Xen boot option
# xenkopt=console=tty0

## altoption boot targets option
## multiple altoptions lines are allowed
## e.g. altoptions=(extra menu suffix) extra boot options
##      altoptions=(single-user) single
# altoptions=(init-3) 3

## controls how many kernels should be put into the menu.lst
## only counts the first occurence of a kernel, not the
## alternative kernel options
## e.g. howmany=all
##      howmany=7
# howmany=all

## should update-grub create memtest86 boot option
## e.g. memtest86=true
##      memtest86=false
# memtest86=true

## should update-grub adjust the value of the default booted system
## can be true or false
# updatedefaultentry=false

## should update-grub add savedefault to the default options
## can be true or false
# savedefault=false

## ## End Default Options ##

title        antiX-12, kernel 3.3.5-antix.1-486-smp
root        (hd0,6)
kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-3.3.5-antix.1-486-smp root=UUID=710c2ba7-ae5e-481f-b7ef-0e71f4ffa2b8 ro 
initrd        /boot/initrd.img-3.3.5-antix.1-486-smp

title        antiX-12, kernel 3.3.5-antix.1-486-smp (init-3)
root        (hd0,6)
kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-3.3.5-antix.1-486-smp root=UUID=710c2ba7-ae5e-481f-b7ef-0e71f4ffa2b8 ro 3
initrd        /boot/initrd.img-3.3.5-antix.1-486-smp

title        antiX-12, kernel memtest86+
root        (hd0,6)
kernel        /boot/memtest86+.bin

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
And the inxi -plou:

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Partition: ID: / size: 17G used: 1.7G (11%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda7 
           label: N/A uuid: 710c2ba7-ae5e-481f-b7ef-0e71f4ffa2b8
           ID: /home size: 12G used: 346M (3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5 
           label: N/A uuid: 165dff0a-b98c-4b22-93f3-162002005d1f
           ID: swap-1 size: 2.33GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda6 
           label: N/A uuid: 02f99d87-c43f-4822-8493-1b72bd8b41f2
Unmounted: ID: /dev/sda1 size: 87.78G label: N/A uuid: 8610DCFC10DCF3E1 
           ID: /dev/sr0 size: 1.07G label: N/A uuid: N/A 
           ID: /dev/sr1 size: 1.07G label: N/A uuid: N/A 
anticapitalista
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#5
Try this

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title        Windows XP 
root        (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader    +1
[code]
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TechLion
Joined: 12 Jul 2012
#6
Thanks anticapitalista but I've already fixed it.
I simply deleted the two map lines and fixed the rootnoverify line to be like this:

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rootnoverify (hd0,0)
I don't know how the rootnoverify line got messed up however, since I never opened menu.lst on this install before...

Anyway, thanks for all the help!

Best regards,
TechLion