Grub boot problem
Cyber Source
peter at cybersource.us
Wed Dec 15 13:22:42 UTC 2004
mapping is only needed when going to another hard drive, as windows
needs to think it is on the root system (c). he needs to correct his
partition table as after it goes from cylinder #1275 (where his boot
load flag is), it is looking for #1276 which he has on /dev/hda1, not
/dev/hda5.
Sasa Stupar wrote:
> 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
> -----------
> So I have done remaping drive. Maybe you can done it also (just change
> for your system config)
>
> Sasa
>
>
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