[wplug] Fedora 3 windows XP dual booting

[Jonathan Billings]

On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 07:24:24PM -0800, Dileep Vangasseri wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Today, at the meeting Ted helped me to get rid of my
> SuSe 9.0 and migrate to Fedora 3 on my vaio. FC works
> perfect, and we could configure almost all the things
> (including the 3D accelration for my radeon card). We
> put FC as the default boot. However, I forgot to check
> if it was booting to windows after the installtion.
> Now whenever I try to boot to windows it gives me an
> error message as
> 
> rootnoverify hd0,0
> chainloader +1

You probably want to have 'hd0,1' instead of 'hd0,0'.  It looks like
the first partition is probably one of those emergency boot partition.

Let me know if it works.

> "This is not a bootable disk, Please insert a bootable
> floppy and press any key".
> 
> My grub config looks like this:
> 
> # grub.conf generated by anaconda
> #
> # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making
> changes to this file
> # NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means
> that
> #          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to
> /boot/, eg.
> #          root (hd0,2)
> #          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda5
> #          initrd /initrd-version.img
> #boot=/dev/hda
> default=0
> timeout=5
> splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> hiddenmenu
> title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667)
>         root (hd0,2)
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABEL=/
> rhgb quiet
>         initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
> title Windows
>         rootnoverify (hd0,0)
>         chainloader +1
> 
> We have not erased our windows (!) since an fdisk 
>  -l /dev/hda gives me the following output:
> 
> /dev/hda1               1         608     4883728+   c
>  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
> /dev/hda2   *         609        2432    14651280    7
>  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda3            2433        2445      104422+  83
>  Linux
> /dev/hda4            2446        4864    19430617+   f
>  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/hda5            2446        3210     6144831   83
>  Linux
> /dev/hda6            3211        3341     1052226   82
>  Linux swap
> /dev/hda7            3342        4864    12233466   83
>  Linux
> 
> 
> It would be of great help if someone could help me to
> boot my system to windows. I have an XP as dual boot
> and I have some VERY IMPORTANT files in its C drive
> (ntfs). I could get most of the files in D drive by
> mounting the D drive (vfat) from linux itself. 
> 
> With regards,
> 
> Dileep
> 
> 
> 
> 
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