fresh install for dual boot with winxp : grub hangs

[Rick Mohr]

Hans,

I recently helped somone install FC2 on a laptop.  It had WinXP already
installed and FC2 was installed on a single partition after it.  After
installation, grub always got hung.  After some probing around, I reran
"grub-install" without modifying the grub.conf that FC had created, and
things suddenly started working fine.

I still don't know what the problem was, but a grub install fixed it just
fine.  Hope that helps.

--Rick

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Hans Horn wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I'm trying to install fedora2 on a HP AMD64 box with winxp factory-installed.
> I've got two disks, with xp installed on the first one.
>
> after the reboot following the fedora install on the 2nd disk, all I get is: GRUB
>
> using 'linux rescue' I tried to modify grub.conf with no success.
>
> here's what fdisk tells me:
>
> fdisk /dev/hda
> /dev/hda    hda1    hp-recovery
>                   hda2    NTFS (XP boot)
>
> fdisk /dev/hdd
> /dev/hdd    hdd1    swap
>                   hda3    ext3 (Linux boot)
>
> device.map says:
>
> hd0    /dev/hda
> hd1    /dev/hdd
>
>
> has anybody got a glue how grub.conf is supposed to look like for grub to work on my system.
>
>
> right now I'm pretty much dead in the water - can't boot into any OS!
>
>
> H.