i just installed FC5 on a family member's computer (that's 2 so far
:D), but it won't boot the windows XP OS. when i select xp from the
menu, the screen just goes blank for a second, then it goes back to
the grub menu and starts the countdown again (or continues it, don't
remember). can anyone help me troubleshoot this? is it an NTFS
problem?
here's the menu.lst, FC boots fine:
default=0
timeout=12
splashimage=(hd0,5)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.img
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
~
fdisk -l:
Disk /dev/hda: 41.1 GB, 41110142976 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4998 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1020 8193118+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 1021 4998 31953285 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 1021 2287 10177146 b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda6 2288 3562 10241406 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 3563 4932 11004493+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 4933 4998 530113+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
thank you
