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Old 02-04-2009, 02:26 PM   #1
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Smile not detecting windows


hi,
im instaled fed 10 on my acer 4710 laptop which already have win xp on it.Now the problem is it is not detecting xp.On the boot menu while clicking other,it fails...
what should i do to recover from this ?
my windows boot partition is ntfs @ is sda0.
The chainloader is fail to load windows.

waiting for a reply...
thanks in advance
 
Old 02-04-2009, 03:42 PM   #2
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Either post the contents of your /boot/grub/menu.lst file for examination or, use the boot management section of your fedora control centre to make the required adjustments.
 
Old 02-05-2009, 06:35 AM   #3
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Fedora doesn't automatically set up booting windows during installation, you have to edit, the /boot/grub/grub.conf file, where it says, "title other"
My /boot/grub/grub.conf is below, but yours may need to be slightly different depending on the partition windows is on. But where yours says, "title other" mine says "title XP".
If you have no luck, do an "su -" without forgetting the dash, and then, do "fdisk -l" and post the result here. That will tell us what your partitions look like.

# 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 (hd0,10)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda12
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=4
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,10)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.26.6-49.fc8)
root (hd0,10)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.26.6-49.fc8 ro root=LABEL=/12 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.26.6-49.fc8.img
title Fedora (2.6.25.14-69.fc8)
root (hd0,10)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25.14-69.fc8 ro root=LABEL=/12 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.25.14-69.fc8.img
title XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

(there's more after this, that I haven't bothered to paste in, that's why "default=4") you can change this number, so it will either boot fedora or windows if you don't touch the boot menu. Keep in mind that numbers start with "0" not "1"

Last edited by decrepit; 02-05-2009 at 07:14 AM.
 
Old 02-05-2009, 02:11 PM   #4
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yep...
that was the problem...default 4.After modifying the file grub.conf,i could able to recover windows.
rootnoverify(hd0,0)
chainloader +1
But in some other laptops,there is no need to modify the file...? default might be 1 in dat case..
any how my problem is solved...
so thanks..
thanks for the support
 
  


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