Re: fc6 / windows xp dual-boot system

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 --


any suggestions appreciated.

Cheers,

Don Raikes, Accessibility Specialist
4848 W. Rosebay S.
Tucson, AZ 85742
Home office: (520) 579-9481
AIM: dnraikes

What does fdisk -l /dev/sda  say instead of parted?