On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have installed Linux and Windows XP on my hard drive and am trying to > set up a dual boot. Unfortunately XP is installed at a high sector, > namely block 204438565. The partition table starts: > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 63 2040254 1020096 83 Linux > /dev/sda2 2040255 104438564 51199155 83 Linux > /dev/sda3 * 104438565 206836874 51199155 b W95 FAT32 > ... > > I have set up grub.conf as follows: > > ... > title Windows > rootnoverify (hd0,2) > chainloader +1 > > The grub initialization screen starts OK, but when I select Windows, > grub fails with a disk read error. > > Questions: > > (1) Is grub.conf set up right for this partition table? > > (2) Is it possible to boot XP at this location, or do I have to > reinstall Linux and XP with their partition reversed, so as to get the > XP partition to a smaller block number? > > (3) Is there some quicker way to get the partitions reversed other than > reinstallation? > I read somewhere that windows needs to be the first partition to boot properly. So you may try installing windows at hd0,0 and try again. Regards -- Rangeen Basu Roy Chowdhury Fedora Ambassador sherry151@xxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
