Cant boot Windows XP after installing FC6
Tod Merley
todbot88 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 6 22:46:24 UTC 2006
On 12/4/06, Erik Grootjans <grootjan at wirehub.nl> 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
> # 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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HI Erik Grootjans!
You have two entries it appears for XP:
> title Windows XP
> rootnoverify (hd0,1)
> chainloader +1uz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
and:
> title Windows XP
> rootnoverify (hd0,1)
> chainloader +1
I would expect to see only the second.
I know little about Xen however.
Good Hunting!
Tod
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