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Old 03-09-2004, 01:52 AM   #1
whitetigah
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Dual boot problem!!!


I did a clean install with Fedora.
Partitioned FAT32 using ranish.
Afterward i installed Windows ME.
Of course now win ME booted itself.
But den i was tired of using the boot disk to load Fedora
and so i reinstalled GRUB.
Now i can't even boot win ME with boot disk.

my partition:

hda1 - /boot 5120 gb
hda2 - / (root) 100 mb
hda3 - swap 509 mb
hda4 - Windows ME approx. 30 gb

But the funny thing is when i use the "df" command,

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 5164248 3174336 1727580 65% /
/dev/hda1 102454 6438 90816 7% /boot
none 127752 0 127752 0% /dev/shm

the partition with windows ME says none for the parameter.
it doesn't come back with <hda4> like it should.

does that have to do anything with it not booting?

i also tried xosl the boot program but when i tried to install it in
a dos partition it wouldn't pass the "checking the disc" process.

now i'm utterly confused and need ur help!
 
Old 03-09-2004, 10:33 AM   #2
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none 127752 0 127752 0% /dev/shm
that's not your partition, it's shared virtual memory.

Quote:
does that have to do anything with it not booting?
Nope.

You need to add an entry in grub.conf that points to the windows partition..
 
  


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