<html> <body> At 23:04 05-15-2004 +0200, you wrote: No ... I think you are misunderstood ... :-) I am not having problems booting XP .. I was helping another guy saying which, configuration I had setup here .... It's sure that boot.ini can mess up some stuff .. anyways, my boot.ini is: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect That's why I am doing some weird stuff on the grub.conf file :) thanks, <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Marco Bicca wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>At 19:21 05-15-2004 +0200, you wrote: Ok .. here is my setup: 2 120GB Harddrives on a Promise Controller as HDE and HDG I have Fedora on HDE and WinXP on HDG If I do not hide the partitions under HDE I couldn't boot to WinXP (Don't know why)</blockquote> windows set the priority in a physical/filesystem mixture. afair: the first hd, first primary partition, first ntfs partition is C: the second hd, first primary partition, first ntfs partition is D: i can not remeber how windows is setting the priority with fat-vfat-partitions and scsi/ide mixture could it be that win-xp is seeing now the partitions created by anaconda, as the result the boot.ini is misconfigured and XP is trying to boot from the wrong disk/partition eg. hde1 instead hdg1 ? can you show us your c:\boot.ini ? thanks afair: multi(0) = 1. controller disk(0) = 1. ide-hd rdisk(0) = 1. scsi-hd partition(1) = 1. partition <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>The partition that I have on HDG is NTFS, after I did that change it's working beautifully ... I don't have any extended partitions on any hard drive all partitions are primary I have two partitions on HDE</blockquote> unhide(hd0,0)(hd0,1) = XP is unbootable because XP can see this disk/partitions and the boot.ini is fault ? hide = XP is bootable because the boot.ini is ok <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>and one partition on HDG.</blockquote> which should be in your boot.ini surely the first hd, first primary-bootable-ntfs-partition evtl. multi(1) ? ---- c:\boot.ini [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect ---- <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>HDE / - ext3 - primary swap - primary HDG ntfs - primary Let me know if you need anything else :) Thanks, <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Marco Bicca wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>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+</blockquote> what would happen if you unhide (hd0,0) (hd0,1) can you boot into xp ? do you have an extented partition on hda or 2 primaries ? do you have only 1 primary on hdb for xp ? my w2k-prof boot.ini under vmware on sda1 ---- c:\boot.ini [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect ----</blockquote></blockquote> -- shrek-m -- 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>