Unable to boot on WinXP after Fedora Core 2 test3 install

Marco Bambini marco at vampiresoft.com
Thu May 13 16:58:30 UTC 2004


I have a laptop (Acer Aspire 1300 with a 20GB HD) with Windows XP in 
the first partition (15GB) and Fedora Core 2 test1 in the second one 
(with GRUB for the dual boot and it always works fine). I have decided 
to install Fedora Core 2 test3 (with the erase linux partition option) 
and the installation works fine.

But when I try to boot on my WindowsXP partition (with Grub) nothing 
happens...
I am now UNABLE to boot into my WindowsXP partiotion...
I have read that others have the same problem after the Fedora install 
... but I haven't found any solution that works for me.

Anyone can help me?


#fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 20.0 GB, 20003880960 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38760 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1       26550    13381168+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2           26551       26753      102312   83  Linux
/dev/hda3           26754       37785     5560128   83  Linux
/dev/hda4           37786       38760      491400    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5           37786       38760      491368+  82  Linux swap

#cat /etc/grub.conf
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this 
file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,1)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda3
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=1
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.327)
	root (hd0,1)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.327 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
	initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.327.img
title WindowsXP
	rootnoverify (hd0,0)
	chainloader +1

I really need your help...
Thanks a lot.

Marco Bambini
Italy





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