Jonathan Berry wrote:
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 13:18:04 -0500, Nat Gross
<natgross.rentalsystems@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi;
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.
You are probably safe. I have seen Windows XP installed on G: and I:
with nothing on C:.
THIS is solid good news! Now, I recall during the fc3 install
*somewhere* I had the option to make partitions bootable, and I selected
hda and UNselected hdb. Can this be the problem?
Unlike previous versions, this is perfectly fine
for XP; the one on I: doesn't even have a real C: drive. It's
occupied by a card reader :).
duh!
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.)
It's not listed twice. hdb2 is the extended partition. It can hold
multiple logical partitions, but you have just one. hdb5 is the sole
logical parition in hdb2, so it looks like a duplicate. This is your
problem, see below.
Thanks for the clarification.
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
=========================
As noted above, I also tried rootnoverify (hd1,0) .
This should be rootnoverify (hd1,4) Like I said above, were trying to
point it to the extended partition instead of the logical one that
actually has the data. Now, you might run into a problem with trying
to boot to an extended partition, but it if worked before, then it
ought to work again. If not, let us know. You should be able to
"repartition" it to where hdb2 is your XP partition. You don't need
an extended partition in this case.
I tried this and Grub complained with error 18: Selected cylinder
exceeds maximum supported by BIOS.
Thank you
-nat
Hope this helps,
Yes!
Jonathan
TA
-nat
