On Tue, 18 May 2004 10:40:27 -0500 Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sean Estabrooks wrote: > > >On Tue, 18 May 2004 01:04:56 -0700 (PDT) > >boby <bobysandz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >>Hi > >>I installed fedora after i had installed win2000 > >>and now i get error when i want to start win2000 from > >>grub boot loader .following line is from my grub.conf > >>should i recover from windows recovery console or i > >>should change some thing in grub conf. > >> > >>title WINDOWS 2000 > >> rootnoverify (hd0,0) > >> chainloader +1 > >> > >>and here is my partition table : > >>/dev/hda1 * 1461 3500 16386300 c > >>Win95 FAT32 (LBA) > >>/dev/hda2 3501 4866 10972395 a5 > >>FreeBSD > >>/dev/hda3 1 26 208813+ 83 > >>Linux > >>/dev/hda4 27 1460 11518605 5 > >>Extended > >>/dev/hda5 27 91 522081 82 > >>Linux swap > >>/dev/hda6 92 1460 10996461 83 > >>Linux > >> > >>thanks for help > >> > >Hi, > > > >This seems to be a known problem but i'm not sure of the proper fix. > >Would you please test the following two changes and let us know if either > >of them work or not: > > > >Modify the rootnoverify line above to: > > > >rootnoverify (hd0, 3) > > > >and if that doesn't work please try: > > > >rootnoverify (hd0,4) > > > >Hope this helps. > >Sean. > > > You are telling him to try to boot from the extended partition ---> no > way, not a filesystem here. > Then you have him try the linux swap partition --> even worse. No you are wrong. > (hd0,0) is hda1 (FAT32) > (hd0,1) is hda2 )FreeBSD) > (hd0,2) is hda3 (Linux) > (hd0,5) is hda5 (Linux) > These are the only possible choices, and his Windows 2000 can only > possibly reside on hda1 or hda2 (probably on hda1). No you are wrong. > He is trying to boot Windows 2000 which should be NTFS and the partition > table shows it as FAT32. > This may be the problem, and if he allowed the system to do an > auto-partition when installing it may have corrupted the partition table. > A corrupt partition table may prevent recovery. Please don't try to disuade him from trying. It may very well work for him. Cheers, Sean.
