Fedora Core 2 and Windows xp

[Mikael Konttinen]

Ori,

No, I believe that is because you have overwritten the MBR (Master Boot
Record) with GRUB, something that Windows XP cannot handle as it needs its
own (NT) bootloader.

To recover your Windows into booting condition, you have to boot from the
Windows CD into Recovery console and type FIXMBR. After that you should be
able to boot Windows but not Linux. Then you have to re-install GRUB on your
/boot partition bootblock, NOT on the MBR!

To boot Linux from the NT bootloader, you have to make a file of the linux
/boot partition bootblock using dd and reference to it in the hidden system
file c:\boot.ini.

If you want to use GRUB as first bootloader, you make the /boot partition
active partition using fdisk. To be able to boot Windows XP from GRUB, add
the following lines to grub.conf:

title WindowsXP
    rootnoverify (hd0,x) <-- where x is your WinXP partition number, most
likely (hd0,0)
    makeactive
    chainloader +1

For further (and more verbose) information, check out:
http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html

A dd ported to windows can be found at:
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite/dd.htm

(Note that dd for win32 references to harddisk volumes not as /dev/hdXY, but
as \\?\Device\HarddiskX\PartitionY where both X and Y are numeral counting
from zero)


Hope this helps

Mkn.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ori Rosen" <ori_r2003 at yahoo.com>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 3:55 PM
Subject: Fedora Core 2 and Windows xp


> After installing FC2, when I try to boot windows xp
> from the grub menu, I get the message: file is missing
> or corrupt: Windows root\system32\hal.dll.
> Is this a symptom of the problem described in
> http://lwn.net/Articles/86835/?
>
> Thanks
> Ori
>