Cant boot Windows XP after installing FC6

[Jim Cornette]

Erik Grootjans wrote:
> HI,
> 
> After installing FC6 I cannot boot Windows XP.
> (Fedora 6 boots OK)
> Booting XP I get the grub commands
>  rootnoverify (hd0,1)
>  chainloader +1
> on screen and a black screen and thats it.
> 
> How can i get Windows XP to get booted by grub again?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Erik
> 
> 
> ===========================
> Additional info:
> ===========================
> The file grub.conf seems to be ok.
> 
> cat grub.conf
> # grub.conf generated by anaconda
> #
> # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this
> file
> # NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
> #          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
> #          root (hd0,0)
> #          kernel /vmlincat grub.conf
> # grub.conf generated by anaconda
> #
> # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this
> file
> # 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/VolGroup00/LogVol00
> #          initrd /initrd-version.img
> #boot=/dev/hda
> default=1
> timeout=5
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> hiddenmenu
> title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen)
>         root (hd0,0)
>         kernel /xen.gz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
>         module /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen ro
> root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
> rhgb quiet
>         module /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen.img
> title Windows XP
>         rootnoverify (hd0,1)
>         chainloader +1uz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00

Is the information above actually in the file? It looks scrambled after 
chainloader +1 - Anyway, other than the scrambled file and the wrapping, 
I have no idea. The basics look alright to me.

Jim

> #          initrd /initrd-version.img
> #boot=/dev/hda
> default=1
> timeout=5
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> hiddenmenu
> title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen)
>         root (hd0,0)
>         kernel /xen.gz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
>         module /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen ro
> root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
> rhgb quiet
>         module /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen.img
> title Windows XP
>         rootnoverify (hd0,1)
>         chainloader +1
> 
> --------------------
> uitput fdisk option p:
> 
>  fdisk /dev/hda
> 
> The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 14593.
> There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
> and could in certain setups cause problems with:
> 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
> 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
>    (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
> 
> Command (m for help): p
> 
> Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 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          13      104391   83  Linux
> /dev/hda2   *          14        5750    46078200    7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda3            5750        7283    12315240    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/hda4            7284       14593    58717575   8e  Linux LVM
> /dev/hda5            5750        6515     6146248+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda6            6515        7152     5118088+   b  W95 FAT32
> 
> Command (m for help): q
> 
> 


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