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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