Don Raikes wrote:
Hello,
I have a gateway computer which had windows xp installed on the second partition. The first aprtition was a "recovery" image for xp.
I had 100gb of free space on the drive and installed fc6 onto that.
My grub.conf lists the windows partition, but when I try to boot to the windows system, the pc just hangs.
--- grub.conf ---
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
# root (hd0,2)
# kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda3
# initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=1
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/xen.gz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
module /boot/initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen.img
title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1
-- end of grub.conf --
-- partition table --
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
Using /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 250GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
2 32.3kB 5840MB 5840MB primary fat32
1 5840MB 144GB 138GB primary ntfs boot
3 144GB 244GB 99.6GB primary ext3
4 244GB 250GB 6185MB extended
5 244GB 250GB 6078MB logical linux-swap
-- end of partition table --
You might have luck with adding makeactive to the grub file. I had an
installation which needed the additional entry in order to boot XP.
Probably the XP partition was not marked as active after the installation.
Example from Internet search.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=388949
Jim
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