FC4: grub no longer allows windows booting

[Mike McCarty]

oldman wrote:
> Noah wrote:
> 
>> Anybody on this mail list help me?
>>
>> okay I went through all the instructions to get a dual boot system 
>> fedora and
>> windows XP.
>> http://shawndisk.com/modules/xoopsf...php?cat_id=2#q7
>> and now I am finding that the following error occurs from the grub 
>> loader when
>> I choose the windows XP option. what else can I try so I can boot up in
>> Windows XP?
>>
>> I have two IDE/ATA Maxtor 300GB drives (6L300R0) and an Asus A7N8X 
>> motherboard.
>>
>> --- snip ---
>>
>> rootnoverify (hd0,0)
>> chainloader +1
>>
>> GRUB Loading stage1.5
>>
>>
>> GRUB loading, please wait...
>> Error 18
>>
>> --- snip ---
>>
>>  
>>
>    Probably 2 possibilities, 1) Windows was not in the 1st partition of 
> the 1st drive
> to verify, run (as root) "fdisk -l" this should tell you where your XP 
> lives.
> if it is the first partition (listed as hda1).  If (for example) you 
> find windows in the 1st
> partition of your 2nd drive, change the  grub line to root (hd1,0).
> 
> 2) Possibly you have blown out the NT bootloader by, for instance, 
> installing grub to
> /dev/hda1
>    This is the worse case as the only way I know to get it back is to 
> re-install windows
> (if you choose to do this you may be able to save your files if you 
> choose not to format
> and partition your drive).  You will then need to boot into rescue linux 
> and setup Grub again.
> 
> HTH
> 

ACK! Windows XP has a rescue mode which can (probably) fix that
much better than re-installation.

Mike
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