<html> <body> 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, <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Gerry Tool wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Jim Cornette wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Marco Bambini wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>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 </blockquote> 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 </blockquote>Yes, I had tried this to no avail during one of my failures of XP to boot. Gerry Tool </blockquote> 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 -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: <a href="http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list" eudora="autourl">http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list</a> </blockquote> <x-sigsep></x-sigsep> ___ Marco Bicca Network Security Engineer eMail: mbicca@terra.com.br iCq: 3198441 YiM: twilightdrummer MsNm: hadeswarden@hotmail.com Linux registered user: 298447 PgP Key @ <a href="http://mbicca.securesolution.com.br/pgp/marco_bicca.asc" eudora="autourl">http://mbicca.securesolution.com.br/pgp/marco_bicca.asc </a>In the year of the new century and nine months, From the sky will come a great King of Terror... The sky will burn at forty-five degrees. Fire approaches the great new city..." In the city of york there will be a great collapse, 2 twin brothers torn apart by chaos while the fortress falls the great leader will succumb, third big war will begin when the big city is burning" NOSTRADAMUS </body> </html>