fc6 / windows xp dual-boot system

[Jim Cornette]

Don Raikes wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a gateway computer which had windows xp installed on the second partition. The first aprtition was a "recovery" image for xp.
> I had 100gb of free space on the drive and installed fc6 onto that.
> 
> My grub.conf lists the windows partition, but when I try to boot to the windows system, the pc just hangs.
> 
> --- grub.conf ---
> # grub.conf generated by anaconda
> #
> # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
> # NOTICE:  You do not have a /boot partition.  This means that
> #          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
> #          root (hd0,2)
> #          kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda3
> #          initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
> #boot=/dev/sda
> default=1
> timeout=5
> splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> hiddenmenu
> title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6)
> 	root (hd0,2)
> 	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
> 	initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img
> title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen)
> 	root (hd0,2)
> 	kernel /boot/xen.gz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 
> 	module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
> 	module /boot/initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen.img
> title Windows XP
> 	rootnoverify (hd0,1)
> 	chainloader +1
> 
> -- end of grub.conf --
> 
> -- partition table --
> Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
> Using /dev/sda
> 
> Disk /dev/sda: 250GB
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
> Partition Table: msdos
> 
> Number  Start   End     Size    Type      File system  Flags
>  2      32.3kB  5840MB  5840MB  primary   fat32             
>  1      5840MB  144GB   138GB   primary   ntfs         boot 
>  3      144GB   244GB   99.6GB  primary   ext3              
>  4      244GB   250GB   6185MB  extended                    
>  5      244GB   250GB   6078MB  logical   linux-swap        
> 
> -- end of partition table --
> 


You might have luck with adding makeactive to the grub file. I had an 
installation which needed the additional entry in order to boot XP. 
Probably the XP partition was not marked as active after the installation.

Example from Internet search.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=388949

Jim

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