fresh install for dual boot with winxp : grub hangs

[Hans Horn]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Schaffner" 
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 8:52 AM
Subject: Re: fresh install for dual boot with winxp : grub hangs


> On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 02:15 -0700, Hans Horn wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>  
>> I'm trying to install fedora2 on a HP AMD64 box with winxp factory-
>> installed.
>> I've got two disks, with xp installed on the first one.
>>  
>> after the reboot following the fedora install on the 2nd disk, all I
>> get is: GRUB
>>  
>> using 'linux rescue' I tried to modify grub.conf with no success.
>>  
>> here's what fdisk tells me:
>>  
>> fdisk /dev/hda
>> /dev/hda    hda1    hp-recovery
>>             hda2    NTFS (XP boot)
>>  
>> fdisk /dev/hdd
>> /dev/hdd    hdd1    swap
>>             hda3    ext3 (Linux boot)
> 
> Did you mean hdd3?  hdd2?  What else is on hdd? Do you have /boot and /
> or is everything but swap on one partition.

hdd2 is an empty fat32 partition - dunno how it got to be.
I don't have a /boot partition

> 
>> device.map says:
>>  
>> hd0    /dev/hda
>> hd1    /dev/hdd
> 
> This seems to be a rather strange setup and may be confusing grub.
> Usually you would want your hard disk as the master on the controller
> rather than the slave, or better yet the only thing on the controller
> for performance reasons.  What is on the slave for the first IDE

master: hda
slave1: nothing
master2: dvd/cd
slave2: hdd

> contoller and the master for the second?  I'd try changing the hardware
> setup so the second disk is the master on the second controller, booting
> in rescue mode, and fixing /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/grub.conf to match.
> The BIOS hard disk mode may also be a factor.

recommendations?

 
>> has anybody got a glue how grub.conf is supposed to look like for grub
>> to work on my system.
> 
> Would help to first see what you've got now.  Where did you install
> grub, the MBR or the boot partition?

the MBR!

> 
>> right now I'm pretty much dead in the water - can't boot into any OS!
> 
> I suspect it is recoverable, but you need to clarify and provide correct
> current grub.conf and disk/partition information.

have to wait until I get home tonite!
thx a lot!

Hans

> 
> Phil