Mike McCarty wrote:
oldman wrote:
Noah wrote:
Anybody on this mail list help me?
okay I went through all the instructions to get a dual boot system
fedora and
windows XP.
http://shawndisk.com/modules/xoopsf...php?cat_id=2#q7
and now I am finding that the following error occurs from the grub
loader when
I choose the windows XP option. what else can I try so I can boot up in
Windows XP?
I have two IDE/ATA Maxtor 300GB drives (6L300R0) and an Asus A7N8X
motherboard.
--- snip ---
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
GRUB Loading stage1.5
GRUB loading, please wait...
Error 18
--- snip ---
Probably 2 possibilities, 1) Windows was not in the 1st partition
of the 1st drive
to verify, run (as root) "fdisk -l" this should tell you where your
XP lives.
if it is the first partition (listed as hda1). If (for example) you
find windows in the 1st
partition of your 2nd drive, change the grub line to root (hd1,0).
2) Possibly you have blown out the NT bootloader by, for instance,
installing grub to
/dev/hda1
This is the worse case as the only way I know to get it back is to
re-install windows
(if you choose to do this you may be able to save your files if you
choose not to format
and partition your drive). You will then need to boot into rescue
linux and setup Grub again.
HTH
ACK! Windows XP has a rescue mode which can (probably) fix that
much better than re-installation.
Mike
Doesn't work in my situation The console says it found a bad boot
says it replaced it, but
can't boot to it. Heres my disk:
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 14592 117105817+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 14 1288 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda6 1289 3200 15358108+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 3201 3264 514048+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda8 3265 4539 10241406 83 Linux
/dev/hda9 4540 4794 2048256 83 Linux
/dev/hda10 4795 6619 14659281 83 Linux
my grub.conf sets root to (hd0,4) but gives me an error, something like
bad executable.
Interestingly, fixboot did not affect the MBR, as grub boots normally.
The only thing I can think of is that Win2k
doesn't like being on an extended partition, but what is fixboot
writing, and where is it writing to? Beats the hell out of me!
Any way, sorry for the bum steer to Noah. I'll probably get around to
wiping Windows one of these days (haven't booted it in about a year -
Maybe I'll just get another linux distro).
Scott
