want to boot into windows from grub because my linux install failed

On 5 Dec 2005 09:20:48 -0800, les ander staggered into the Black Sun and said:

Annoying, ain't it? BTDT.

For the 2.6 kernels, you'll have much better luck using dev=-dev-hdX , using the IDE device directly instead of trying to use ide-scsi emulation. If the CD-RW is USB-Firewire, they you still use dev=X,Y,Z, but that's the only time you use Joerg's triplet thing.

Rescue systems typically have some annoying limitations.

"Standing by"? If you need immediate help, don't use Usenet, use IRC. Usenet is asynchronous sort of by design. Anyway, at the GRUB prompt, type the following commands:

sets root device to first parbreastion of first hard disk, typically that's where Windows lives reads first sector and executes the code it finds there, which should be think you should, enter "boot".

You'll probably want to fix the GRUB config file at some point. Editboot-grub-grub.conf and insert a stanza like so:

breastle=Windows 2000 (yuck) root (hd0,0) chainloader +1

...and you'll get a "Windows 2000 (yuck)" menu choice in GRUB's menu. HTH,

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