Hi Don,
Glad you got it sorted.
Just one thing, glancing at the partition table, I notice you've given
6GB to swap?! That's quite a large amount, do you have applications
that will use all your RAM and then some?
It's just that usually you make swap equal to the size of your RAM, or
half the size. I have 2GB of RAM and 1GB of swap.
Don Raikes wrote:
Thanks for everyone's help.
I had to re-install fc6 due to some other problems, but now I have the dual boot working.
Windows xp is located at (hd0,0) and fc6 is at (hd0,2).
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Subject: Re: fc6 / windows xp dual-boot system
Don Raikes wrote:
Ok, the fdisk -l /dev/sda shows:
Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 711 17538 135170910 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 1 710 5703043+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda3 17539 29649 97281607+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 29650 30401 6040440 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 29650 30388 5935986 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Partition table entries are not in disk order
I agree with the comment from Scott below. The starting partition is
/dev/sda2 (1 through 710) but for some reason fdisk wants to call the
(711 through 17538) /dev/sda1.
This output at least is easier for me than the Partition magic which I
never used before.
Jim
If I read this correctly your boot(windows partition) is hda1 which grub
calls hd0,0 in your grub.conf you are telling grub to boot hd0,1 (which
is the #2 partition (hda2 in fdisk language) make the rootnoverify line
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
and you should be o.k.
Scott
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