Re: FC2 & dual boot.. problem still there :(

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Cormac Long wrote:
Folks,
I can confirm that the official FC2 does indeed have the same problem as previously reported with the test releases.


I got the ISOs yesterday from a Swiss mirror and installed on my dual boot Acer Aspire 1300 laptop.. I did a fresh install, preserving my existing home partition and leaving my existing XP partition for a dual boot.. same thing I've done for ages right back to the first RH usage of Grub... I have the real thing and not one of the older test releases.

During the initial install stages, if I recall as the disk druid bit was kicking in.. I was prompted regarding the LBA mode.. so I rebooted the laptop to force enable it.. my bios has no such option.. all it lets me do is set the time and boot order. So I rebooted and just ignored the warning.

It installed fine.. worked a treat.. but then when I tried to boot XP, it just hung on the grub console.. I tried the variations of suggested configurations for /etc/grub.conf.. adding makeactive etc.. made no difference, even after grub-install attempts.

I also used the XP cd to get a Windows recovery console prompt and ran fixmbr and fixboot and also tried BOOTCFG /rebuild.. but still a reboot just hung the XP boot... this was odd, because usually these commands overwrite grub, making the system a windows only boot, requiring a linux rescue from RH/FC CD to re-install grub in the MBR.

So it appears the issue is still there and will be the cause of much flame.. fearing I might have had a test release, I confirmed with the MD5SUMS again.. it is the official release that I got... the issue still exists!

On the recovery front, I booted from Knoppix as it has native NTFS enabled and was able to mount the existing windows NTFS partition.. its still there and seems intact.. so I was able to copy off files and FTP to another machine etc in prep for a new Windows install.. trouble is that I think if I do a clean install of Windows and then a linux rescue to restore grub, that the problem will still be there... I'll end up unable to boot the XP partition.

So it was a downer!.. and I realise that windows is bad and evil.. but I need to to have dual boots and I'm sure that many others out there are also in this boat.

Below are outputs from the fdisk -l command and the existing grub.conf file for anyone who is interested.

    title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358)
            root (hd0,0)
            kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
            initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img
    title Windows XP
            rootnoverify (hd0,1)
            makeactive
            chainloader +1


[root@dhcp-145 cormac]# fdisk -l

    Disk /dev/hda: 30.0 GB, 30005821440 bytes
    16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 58140 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

       Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
    /dev/hda1               1         210      105808+  83  Linux
    /dev/hda2   *         211       31425    15732360    7  HPFS/NTFS
    /dev/hda3           31426       39750     4195800   83  Linux
    /dev/hda4           39751       58140     9268560    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
    /dev/hda5           39751       41835     1050808+  82  Linux swap
    /dev/hda6           41836       58140     8217688+  83  Linux


Regards, Cormac


I had the same problem and found a way to restore the original partition table using fdisk. In short, I completely wiped out the mbr and recreated it from scratch using the original disk geometry. I posted more detailed information on fedora-test-list:


http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-May/msg02114.html

I hope it helps,

--
Radu



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