Dual boot FC2 / WinXP hangs
M. Yep
myep at remotelink.com
Tue Jun 15 13:19:14 UTC 2004
Hello Sean,
Here is the info you requested
This is the screen after selecting WinXP from grub:
Rootnoverify(hd0,0)
Chainloader +1
...computer hangs
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[root at plank9 myep]# /sbin/modprobe edd
FATAL: Module edd not found.
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[root at plank9 myep]# find /sys/firmware -name 'legacy*' | xargs cat
0x3f
0xfe
0x3ff
Please see attached hda1.dump.gz
md5sum hda1.dump = a7033876c63cf634bfe7985ab843d81b
On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 21:23, M. Yep wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have had the problem with FC2 dual booting with WinXP.
> There is tons of info on the web for this, but I tried the fix, and it
> still fails.
>
> This is what I did:
>
> I had WinXP already on my machine. Here is the partition table:
> Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120033041920 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 2432 19531701 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda2 2432 6323 31250677+ b W95 FAT32
> /dev/hda3 6323 6335 102312 83 Linux
> /dev/hda4 6335 14594 66334464 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/hda5 6335 8885 20480008+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda6 8885 10160 10239736+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda7 10160 10421 2097112+ 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hda8 10421 14594 33517480+ 83 Linux
>
> I installed FC2_64 (full install) and then grub locks up when booting
> into WinXP
>
> I ran the command sfdisk -d /dev/hda | sfdisk --no-reread -H255 /dev/hda
> --force
>
> and I also zeroed out the first 512 bytes of /dev/hda2 because of
> sfdisk's recommendation.
>
> The computer still hangs when trying to boot WinXP.
>
> Any help would be great.
>
> Michael Yep
> RemoteLink, Inc.
> Technical Operations / Development
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