booting problem

Joy Methew ml4joy at gmail.com
Sun Feb 1 08:54:33 UTC 2009


hello all,
i have two hadr disk sda and hda.
I have installed Windows xp on a seperat hard drive(on sda).  I installed
the new hard drive and then installed Redhat linux 5 on the new drive(hda).
 i set the prority on other(xp) bydefault.
redhat is running fine but when i enter on other it`s not running.
i m sending out put of "fdisk -l" and grub.conf.

thanks
[root at localhost ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hdc: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdc1               2        5100    40957717+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdc2   *        5101        8924    30716280   83  Linux
/dev/hdc3            8925        9179     2048287+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hdc5               2        5100    40957686    7  HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9726 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        2065    16587081    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda2            2066        9725    61528950    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5            2066        4615    20482843+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/sda6            4616        7165    20482843+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda7            7166        9725    20563168+   b  W95 FAT32



# 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 (hd0,1)
#          kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hdc2
#          initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hdc
default=1
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,1)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (2.6.18-8.el5)
        root (hd0,1)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
        initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-8.el5.img
title Other
        rootnoverify (hd0,4)
        chainloader +1



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