It's the USA-style "confused-endian" that's the real WTF.
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RE: Best Before September 31th
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RE: Vista boot beware!
@death said:
Grub has a console that AFAIK is capable of booting windows even without menu list... I once on a 98SE(long time ago in the era of dialup and teenaged me) damaged my linux partition beyond repair and without internet managed to boot windows again to search how to fix the boot sector:P I think you had to set root, tell it to chainload +1 and boot.
It doesn't require a menu.lst, but it does require grub section 2. As you can see, the above fails at section 1.5. Which makes sense, of course. If you've installed GNU/Linux on a machine that already has Windows on it, most of grub goes into /boot/grub on your ext partition- which was overwritten :P
Thankfully, you've still got a grub section 1.5. You could overwrite this with a 1.5 designed for NTFS, and then place the rest of grub on your Windows partition. You know, if you hadn't fixed it already. Adrian15's SGD is also a lifesaver in these sorts of situations.
As you can tell, I've had some experience with this :) My first Debian installation was corrupted the first time I booted into Windows [maybe it swapped to this disk without checking that there was no NTFS partition there anymore?] and left me a week to learn how to use sh to get my system up again.