Unable to boot on WinXP after Fedora Core 2 test3 install
Phil Schaffner
Philip.R.Schaffner at NASA.gov
Thu May 13 19:22:16 UTC 2004
On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 14:36, shrek-m at gmx.de wrote:
> Kenneth Benson wrote:
>
> > if /dev/hda1 is your XP then it looks like grub over-wrote the boot
> > code for the XP partition, since that is where it's booting from and
> > grub is in the boot partition.
> >
>
> afair
> hd0,0 = hda1
> hd0,1 = hda2
>
> > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> > > /dev/hda1 * 1 26550 13381168+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
> > > /dev/hda2 26551 26753 102312 83 Linux
> > > /dev/hda3 26754 37785 5560128 83 Linux
> > > /dev/hda4 37786 38760 491400 f W95
> > > Ext'd (LBA)
> > > /dev/hda5 37786 38760 491368+ 82 Linux swap
> >
>
> > > splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> > > title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.327)
> > > root (hd0,1)
> > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.327 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
> > > initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.327.img
> > > title WindowsXP
> > > rootnoverify (hd0,0)
> > > chainloader +1
> >
>
>
> afair
> winxp has problems with pqmagic5 created partitions,
> i could not find the article
> http://search.microsoft.com/search/results.aspx?view=en-us&st=b&na=82&qu=partition+magic
>
> could it be that since fc2tx something has changed the partition in a
> simliar way?
>
>
> what had you tried?
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-April/msg00138.html
>
> bios-setting from auto to lba ?
> boot win-xp-cd in rescue-mode ?
> c:\> fixmbr
>
>
>
> --
> shrek-m
Looks a lot like
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=116653
Please post if you get this working - have been following this issue as
I'd like to put FC2 on my IBM A21p notebook that currently runs FC1 and
XP, but have been leery due to numerous reports of FC2/XP dual boot
problems. The above bug is still open, and some earlier threads
suggested the above work-arounds, but there did not seem to be a
reported successful resolution in some cases.
Phil
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