cant boot WinXP after installing Fed8

axkana · 03-02-2008, 11:45 AM

Hi, i am new in this forum. My problem is that i installed Fedora 8 after WinXP in my laptop. I am booting Fedora 8, but i cannot boot to WinXP again... For booting in my laptop, so far, there are 2 options: Fedora 8 or other. Other sends me to this screen...booting 'other'...rootnoverify (hd0,4)...chainloader +1... can anybody help me?

thanks

moljac024 · 03-02-2008, 12:11 PM

That "Other" entry should be pointing to your Windows XP installation. Can you post your partition layout please ?

axkana · 03-02-2008, 04:30 PM

zdravo!

partition 1: WinXP 47 GB (filesystem type ntfs)
partition 2: Recovery system data WinXP 3 GB (filesystem type vfat)
partition 3: Linux 25 GB (filesystem type rootfs)

The way i installed fedora 8 was the following:
"Remove linux partitions on selected drives and create default layout" because i created a partition for Linux using partition magic.

Perhaps this has something to do with my problem. Also, i am able to see all my documents from Windows in its respective partition, then i think no way my data was destroyed or formatted from that partition.

I am new in Linux, i know very few about Linux commands. Anyway i am willing to learn. Thanks in advance mojac024!

moljac024 · 03-11-2008, 05:28 AM

Please post your /boot/grub/menu.lst

simplicissimus · 03-16-2008, 05:40 PM

Dual booting has been a clever option during the Windows98 and WindowsNT/2K area and I have used it with success. Windows XP is a different kind of beast and it seems that MS has taken some actions to prevent dual-booting. There are work-arounds for it, but it can be complicated.

My advice would be in general to install Windows and Linux on different drives (you already did that), always installing Windows first, and during Linux installation avoiding to touch the Windows drive in any way. In case of Windows XP not even it's Master Boot Records. Google for exact details.

The worst case scenario would be to use some removable device as a bootloader with grub options to launch either Windows or Linux.

As a matter of fact I have switched from dual-booting to using VMware in the last few years, as it allows system switches without reboots. You might want to check for this possibility as well as an alternative. With enough RAM this works well.

Hope this helps somehow,
Regards,
SIMP

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AceofSpades19 · 03-16-2008, 07:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by simplicissimus

Dual booting has been a clever option during the Windows98 and WindowsNT/2K area and I have used it with success. Windows XP is a different kind of beast and it seems that MS has taken some actions to prevent dual-booting. There are work-arounds for it, but it can be complicated.

My advice would be in general to install Windows and Linux on different drives (you already did that), always installing Windows first, and during Linux installation avoiding to touch the Windows drive in any way. In case of Windows XP not even it's Master Boot Records. Google for exact details.

The worst case scenario would be to use some removable device as a bootloader with grub options to launch either Windows or Linux.

As a matter of fact I have switched from dual-booting to using VMware in the last few years, as it allows system switches without reboots. You might want to check for this possibility as well as an alternative. With enough RAM this works well.

Hope this helps somehow,
Regards,
SIMP

tons of people have successfully dual-booted xp with linux, its not that hard

simplicissimus · 03-17-2008, 04:23 AM

> "tons of people have successfully dual-booted xp with linux, its not that hard"

I never questioned that it is possible, and if you give us a description of a bullet-proof way for a Windows XP + Linux dual setup, then it would answer the original question and also make this thread complete in terms of information provided.

Best regards,
SIMP

Debian User

brianL · 03-17-2008, 07:47 AM

I've never had any problems dual-booting XP with any distro.

1: Disable page file in XP, then reboot.
2: Defragment
3: Resize XP partition
4: Install whatever distro to unallocated space.

Where's the difficulty?

Larry Webb · 03-17-2008, 09:04 AM

Perhaps the best solution is to get your hands on a live distro cd and boot the cd. As "root" open terminal and type "fdisk -ls" and post the results. Another solution would be to boot the Fedora disk and do a "repair" and install the boot option to the MBR. I have not installed a Fedora distro so I can not give you the step by step procedure. I still recommend getting a live cd distro as they can do more than repair "grub".

binutils · 03-17-2008, 09:42 AM

Hi,

looks like yours same with mine.

try this
"title Other
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1"

Code:

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You do not have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
#          root (hd0,1)
#          kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda2
#          initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,1)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.24.3-34.fc8)
        root (hd0,1)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24.3-34.fc8 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet
        initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.24.3-34.fc8.img
title Fedora (2.6.24.3-12.fc8)
        root (hd0,1)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24.3-12.fc8 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet
        initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.24.3-12.fc8.img
title LFS (2.6.24)
        root (hd0,3)
        kernel /boot/lfskernel-2.6.24 root=/dev/sda4
title Other
        rootnoverify (hd0,0)
        chainloader +1