I recently loaded Fedora Core 2 onto my PC which until now has been using Windows XP Home edition. I installed FC2 with no problems except for an error message saying something about the disk partitions and possible bootloader issues. I am able to run FC2 with no problem, obviously, but I cannot get into XP from the GRUB bootloader. Windows XP is installed onto my primary, HD0, and Linux is installed onto my slave, HD1. Alacrity with answering my issue would be greatly appreciated, as I am currently stranded in Linux, and I am almost completely helpess as far as doing anything other than browing the web.

Can you post your grub.conf which must be in /boot/grub/grub.conf...
Maybe I can help?

berkay

hi

the first thing u should do is
boot into linux

post ur '/etc/grub.conf' and

and output of

fdisk -l /dev/hda

fdisk -l /dev/hdb

this will help everyone to solve ur problem

regards
gaurav

Whenever I try to open /boot/grub/grub.conf or /etc/grub.conf it tells me that acess is denied. I am logged in as a super user, but I'm not sure if there is something else I could do to get acess.

hi
post the exact method and error msgs u get

like
what happens when u go for
#vi /etc/grub.conf

regards

See that error message?

It was identifying the problem.

See here for a solution.

I log into the terminal, and right away I type "su" for a super-user password prompt. I enter my password and log on as a super user. Then I entered "/boot/grub/grub.conf" and got the error message "bash: /boot/grub/grub.conf: Permission denied". When I try to get "#vi /etc/grub.conf" it brings me to a new line without any explination. The new line looks just like all the other super user lines I get.

hey
u need to type
'vi /etc/grub.conf'

#-indicated the prompt here
like this

[root@gaurav plugins]# vi /etc/grub.conf
also

[root@gaurav plugins]# vi /boot/grub/grub.conf
is correct

regards


regrads

Okay, I finally got into Grub.conf, it gave me a big text thing with instructions and some places with peramiters. What do I need to do from here?

hi

u need to post that here
so that we can have a look at it...

regards

# 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 (hd1,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hdb2
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=1
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
password --md5 $1$RPa/AXKb$SJ//7FHirDEWTWT/w4Myk1
title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img
title Other
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
~
That's the text in its entirety.

You should add makeactive line... Hope this helps!

makeactive is not necessary to boot Windows XP.

Make sure you're editing the correct grub.conf file. The one you want will be /boot/grub/grub.conf. If you have one under /etc for some reason you can safely ignore it.

hey

'/etc/grub.conf' is a shotcut to /boot/grub/grub.conf'
no 2 files are there


also post ur
'fdisk - /dev/hda' and 'fdisk -l /dev/hdb'
output here

regards

I tried the makeactive line-it didn't help. My output for fdisk - /dev/hda and fdisk -l /dev/hdb is bash: fdisk: command not found.