Dual Boot, Grub, FC3-WinXpSP2, 2 drives. No go.

[Nat Gross]

Jonathan Berry wrote:

>On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 13:18:04 -0500, Nat Gross
><natgross.rentalsystems at verizon.net> wrote:
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>>Hi;
>>I installed FC3 on a WinXP-sp2 system, whose c: drive was NOT being used
>>(for real), or so I thought. And gave the entire drive, hda, to FC3. I
>>reasoned that since my winXP booted into drive E:, the second drive,
>>hdb, Grub would have no issues with booting Windows. However, although
>>it boots FC3 nicely, when I elect to boot xp, it displays 'rootnoverify
>>(hd1,0) chainloader +1' and stops. Due to the partioning of hdb (as
>>listed below), I have tried hd1,1 as well, with the same results.
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>You are probably safe.  I have seen Windows XP installed on G: and I:
>with nothing on C:.
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THIS is solid good news! Now, I recall during the fc3 install 
*somewhere* I had the option to make partitions bootable, and I selected 
hda and UNselected hdb. Can this be the problem?

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>Unlike previous versions, this is perfectly fine
>for XP; the one on I: doesn't even have a real C: drive.  It's
>occupied by a card reader :).
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duh!

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>>The hardware is as follows:
>>Dell Intel 1.6ghz, 768 meg ram, 2 hard drives, 20gig and 60gig.
>>Disk info:
>>hda:
>>hda1 1-33,     /boot, 259meg, ext3.
>>hda2 34-164 swap, 1 gig
>>hda3 165-2498, /, 18gig, ext3.
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>>hdb:
>>hdb1 1-3633, 28.4gig, fa32. (not mounted, or touched with Linux.)
>>hdb2 3634-7299,28.7gig, Extended. ( ditto)
>>hdb5 3634-7299,28.7gig,ntfs. (don't know why its listed twice. whatever.)
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>It's not listed twice.  hdb2 is the extended partition.  It can hold
>multiple logical partitions, but you have just one.  hdb5 is the sole
>logical parition in hdb2, so it looks like a duplicate.  This is your
>problem, see below.
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Thanks for the clarification.

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>>The /boot/grub/grub.conf:
>># NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
>>#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
>>#          root (hd0,0)
>>#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda3
>>#          initrd /initrd-version.img
>>#boot=/dev/hda
>>default=0
>>timeout=5
>>splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>>hiddenmenu
>>password --md5 blah
>>title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667)
>>    root (hd0,0)
>>    kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
>>    initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
>>title WinXP
>>    rootnoverify (hd1,1)
>>    chainloader +1
>>=========================
>>As noted above, I also tried     rootnoverify (hd1,0) .
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>This should be rootnoverify (hd1,4)  Like I said above, were trying to
>point it to the extended partition instead of the logical one that
>actually has the data.  Now, you might run into a problem with trying
>to boot to an extended partition, but it if worked before, then it
>ought to work again.  If not, let us know.  You should be able to
>"repartition" it to where hdb2 is your XP partition.  You don't need
>an extended partition in this case.
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I tried this and Grub complained with error 18: Selected cylinder 
exceeds maximum supported by BIOS.

>>Thank you
>>-nat
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>Hope this helps,
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Yes!

>Jonathan
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TA
-nat