<font face="tahoma,sans-serif" size="2">I have two disks, one contains Fedora 12 and the other contains Windows XP. Both boot and run individually in the same computer (by swapping cables). I am trying to set up a dual boot using GRUB but I'm having some problems. Here is my grub.conf file:<br>
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grub.conf generated by anaconda </font>
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Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this
file </font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif" size="2">#
NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that </font>
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all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. </font>
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root (hd0,0) </font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif" size="2">#
kernel /vmlinuz-version ro
root=/dev/mapper/vg_shorty-lv_root </font>
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initrd /initrd-[generic-]version.img </font>
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boot=/dev/sda </font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif" size="2">default=2
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif" size="2">timeout=15
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif" size="2">splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif" size="2">#
hiddenmenu </font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif" size="2">title
Fedora (2.6.32.16-141.fc12.i686.PAE) </font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif" size="2"> root
(hd0,0) </font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif" size="2"> kernel
/vmlinuz-2.6.32.16-141.fc12.i686.PAE ro
root=/dev/mapper/vg_shorty-lv_root LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet </font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif" size="2"> initrd
/initramfs-2.6.32.16-141.fc12.i686.PAE.img </font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif" size="2">title
Fedora (2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686.PAE) </font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif" size="2"> root
(hd0,0) </font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif" size="2"> kernel
/vmlinuz-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686.PAE ro
root=/dev/mapper/vg_shorty-lv_root LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet </font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif" size="2"> initrd
/initramfs-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686.PAE.img </font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="2" color="#dc2300"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif">title
Windows XP </font></font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="2" color="#dc2300"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif"> root
(hd1,2) </font></font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="2" color="#dc2300"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif"> makeactive
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="2" color="#dc2300"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif"> chainloader
+1</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Here's the fdisk output:<br></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif">[root@shorty
droark]# fdisk -l </font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif">Disk
/dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500106780160 bytes </font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif">255
heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders </font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif">Units
= cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes </font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif">Disk
identifier: 0x0001c9cc </font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif">Device
Boot Start End Blocks Id System </font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif">/dev/sda1
* 1 26 204799+ 83 Linux </font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif">Partition
1 does not end on cylinder boundary. </font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif">/dev/sda2
26 60802 488179712 8e Linux LVM </font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif">Partition
2 does not end on cylinder boundary. </font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font color="#ff3333"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif">Disk
/dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500106780160 bytes </font></font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font color="#ff3333"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif">255
heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders </font></font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font color="#ff3333"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif">Units
= cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes </font></font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font color="#ff3333"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif">Disk
identifier: 0x076d076c </font></font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font color="#ff3333"> <font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif">Device
Boot Start End Blocks Id System </font></font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font color="#ff3333"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif">/dev/sdb1
1 26 204799+ 83 Linux </font></font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font color="#ff3333"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif">Partition
1 does not end on cylinder boundary. </font></font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font color="#ff3333"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif">/dev/sdb2
* 26 60802 488179650 7 HPFS/NTFS </font></font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font color="#ff3333"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif">Partition
2 does not end on cylinder boundary. </font></font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif">Disk
/dev/dm-0: 494.3 GB, 494307115008 bytes </font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif">255
heads, 63 sectors/track, 60096 cylinders </font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif">Units
= cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes </font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif">Disk
identifier: 0x00000000 </font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif">Disk
/dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table </font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif">Disk
/dev/dm-1: 5586 MB, 5586812928 bytes </font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif">255
heads, 63 sectors/track, 679 cylinders </font>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif">Units
= cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes </font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif">Disk
identifier: 0x00000000 </font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif">Disk
/dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table </font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif">Disk
/dev/sdc: 1812.1 GB, 1812124903424 bytes </font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif">255
heads, 63 sectors/track, 220311 cylinders </font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif">Units
= cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes </font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif">Disk
identifier: 0x5044b1a4 </font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif">Device
Boot Start End Blocks Id System </font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif">/dev/sdc1
* 1 121601 976760001 7 HPFS/NTFS </font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="DejaVu Sans Mono, sans-serif">[root@shorty
droark]# </font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></p>Eventually I have tried every combination for the disk/partition on the NTFS disk. While the "Windows XP" option always appears in the GRUB options, the option fails each time with something like "disk not found". When that happens, I can still select the Fedora kernel and away we happily go. <br>
<br>Sorry for the bother and thanks for anything.<br><br>Dick<br><br>