I installed FC3 on a WinXP-sp2 system, whose c: drive was NOT being used (for real), or so I thought. And gave the entire drive, hda, to FC3. I reasoned that since my winXP booted into drive E:, the second drive, hdb, Grub would have no issues with booting Windows. However, although it boots FC3 nicely, when I elect to boot xp, it displays 'rootnoverify (hd1,0) chainloader +1' and stops. Due to the partioning of hdb (as listed below), I have tried hd1,1 as well, with the same results.
The hardware is as follows:
Dell Intel 1.6ghz, 768 meg ram, 2 hard drives, 20gig and 60gig.
Disk info:
hda:
hda1 1-33, /boot, 259meg, ext3.
hda2 34-164 swap, 1 gig
hda3 165-2498, /, 18gig, ext3.
hdb: hdb1 1-3633, 28.4gig, fa32. (not mounted, or touched with Linux.) hdb2 3634-7299,28.7gig, Extended. ( ditto) hdb5 3634-7299,28.7gig,ntfs. (don't know why its listed twice. whatever.)
The /boot/grub/grub.conf:
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda3
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
password --md5 blah
title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
title WinXP
rootnoverify (hd1,1) chainloader +1
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As noted above, I also tried rootnoverify (hd1,0) .
Thank you -nat
