Unable to boot on WinXP after Fedora Core 2 test3 install

Sat May 15 16:44:21 UTC 2004

At 21:57 05-13-2004 -0400, you wrote:

Hello there,

I have an installation with Windows XP and Fedora Core 2 Test 3 and my 
Windows option inside grub looks like:

rootnoverify (hd1,0)
unhide (hd1,0)
hide (hd0,0)
hide (hd0,1)
makeactive
chainloader 1+

Hope it helps, let me know if you need more information.

Thanks,

>Gerry Tool wrote:
>>Jim Cornette wrote:
>>
>>>Marco Bambini wrote:
>>>
>>>>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
>>>>
>>>
>>>I had a problem during FC1 where XP would not boot. I see that the 
>>>partition is active already from the fdisk output.
>>>
>>>I ended up putting the below into grub.conf and it worked. This was the 
>>>entry from the configuration section in "info grub".
>>>I only see a difference between the two entries with root instead of 
>>>rootnoverify and the makeactive entry.
>>>
>>>     # For booting Windows NT or Windows95
>>>      title Windows NT / Windows 95 boot menu
>>>      root        (hd0,0)
>>>      makeactive
>>>      chainloader +1
>>>
>>>YMMV,
>>>
>>>Jim
>>>
>>>
>>Yes, I had tried this to no avail during one of my failures of XP to boot.
>>Gerry Tool
>
>I haven't read the info for FC2 versions of grub. Is there any changes in 
>the documentation regarding changes to the way non-linux OSes are 
>configured. I pulled the info from FC1's version of grub.
>
>When the above entry worked for me, FC was on a slave disk and XP was on 
>the primary disk. Before changing the entry from the default entry to the 
>one from grub's documentation, XP only booted to a black screen and did 
>not load.
>
>Do you think that the problem might be that fdisk (linux) set up the 
>information in the partition table differently than XP is used to?
>
>I wonder what booting into level 1 and changing the hda4 entry to a 
>primary partition, instead of an extended partition, changing hda4 to a 
>linux swap partition and eliminating hda5 would have any positive effect? 
>(Thinking that XP might have different meanings for info in boot.ini with 
>the extended partition. (container for linux swap).
>
>Sorry no help for this particular booting XP problem. It looks like 
>putting in the installation CD for XP and going to the console repair mode 
>and running fixboot and fixmbr might be the only solution. It would  show 
>what XP (nt) thinks the partition name should be.
>
>Jim
>
>
>
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