grub jamming when windows selected
 

i jus reinstalled winblows and linux. this is how my hdd is partitioned.
hda1 - Linux
hda2 - extended
hda5 - swap
hda6 - ntfs
hda7 - no filesystem

now hda7 isnt formatted cuz i wanted it in ntfs when i loaded up windows after installing it and installing linux. i installed XP first, did the first boot. rebooted and started installing linux. fedora release 1. my grub line for windows says

rootnoverify (hd0.4)
chainloader +1

i tried changing the 4 to anything else and it says illegal command. i guess im being daft about this but i havent a clue what to do. thanks for your time.

See if this works

title=Windows XP
root (hd0,5)
chainloader (hd0,5)+1

Installing a bootloader

If not, post the output of:

fdisk -l

sorry...it was already (0,5), i edited it to make it (0,4) ill try changing the chainloader..thanks

nope...no go, should i try installing windows again on the 3rd partition?

Have you changed something since grub was first installed?

Post the output of:

fdisk -l

[root@localhost root]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 20.0 GB, 20003880960 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2432 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 829 6658911 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 830 2431 12868065 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 830 956 1020096 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda6 957 1912 7679038+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda7 1913 2431 4168836 e Win95 FAT16 (LBA)
[root@localhost root]#

yeah...i had edited the grub.conf with gedit to add the acpi=on argument to make my laptops battery meter work.

Did Windows ever boot after your install? Post your /boot/grub/grub.conf file.

# 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 (hd0,0)
# kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda1
# initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Fedora
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi rhgb acpi=on
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img
title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,5)
chainloader (hd0,5)+1

windows? after installing linux...the first time i tried it gave this error...been trying to debug it ever since. thanks dude for helpin me out :)

I am out of ideas unless the bootable flag needs to be set for XP (use fdisk to toggle the bootable flag, and I have no experience with XP, btw) to run.

I haven't been able to get Windows98 happy unless it is installed on the first primary partition. I thought XP was more flexible and the guy that wrote the Gentoo instructions have it installed at the same place as you do. :confused:

Gentoo's Installing a bootloader

er...whats the command to set the bootable flag?...thanks :)

Run fdisk and then use a: