Grub boot problem

[Sasa Stupar]

Cyber Source a écrit :
> you could try adding the option "makeactive" to your xp stanza, but I 
> would think your problem is with the partitioning itself as you can see 
> they are not in order. Also, do you have grub installed to the mbr or to 
> hda4?
> 
> Fred de Klein wrote:
> 
>> Hi there, just installed Fedora Core3, but now I have an issue booting 
>> WinXP.
>> WinXP is installed on hda5, so my grub.conf reads:
>> ---------------------------------------------
>> title WinXP
>> rootnoverify (hd0,4)
>> chainloader +1
>> ---------------------------------------------
>> however, upon trying to boot WinXP, I get the output
>> Booting 'WinXP'
>> rootnoverify (hd0,4)
>> chainloader +1
>> and then it hangs.
>> Has anyone experienced this before or came across a solution for this.
>> I have re-installed Fedora, however this did not change anything.
>> This is the output of fdisk -l
>> --------------------------------------
>> Disk /dev/hda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
>> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
>> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>>
>>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>> /dev/hda1            1276       18755   140408100    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
>> /dev/hda3           18756       19457     5638815    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
>> /dev/hda4   *           1        1275    10241406   83  Linux
>> /dev/hda5            1340       11537    81915403+   7  HPFS/NTFS
>> /dev/hda6           11538       15361    30716248+  83  Linux
>> /dev/hda7           15362       18548    25599546   83  Linux
>> /dev/hda8           18549       18675     1020096   82  Linux swap
>> /dev/hda9           18676       18755      642568+  83  Linux
>>
>> Partition table entries are not in disk order
>> -------------------------------------------------
>> Your help much appreciated
>>
>> Fred
>>
>>  
>>
> 

I had similar issue but I had winxp installed on separate drive. Anyway 
I have solved this by modifying grub.conf:
--------
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Pingo Linux (2.6.7-1.494.2.2.pingo.3)
         root (hd0,0)
         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.7-1.494.2.2.pingo.3 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb
quiet
         initrd /initrd-2.6.7-1.494.2.2.pingo.3.img
title Windows XP Pro
         map (hd0) (hd1)
       map (hd1) (hd0)
         rootnoverify (hd1,0)
         chainloader +1
         makeactive
         boot
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So I have done remaping drive. Maybe you can done it also (just change 
for your system config)

Sasa