Quote:
Originally Posted by syg00
Grub will boot any partition. XP needs to be in a primary partition on the first (BIOS boot) disk - not necessarily the first partition. The last (M$ost) O/S to need that was probably the original Win 95.
Post the output from "fdisk -l" as well as the grub conf (which may be called grub.conf for RH9).
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this is the output of fdisk -l
sorry about the delay
regards
mariano
[root@localhost root]# cat /boot/grub/grub.conf
# 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 (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hdb5
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hdb
default=2
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-6smp)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-6smp ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi
initrd /initrd-2.4.20-6smp.img
title Red Hat Linux-up (2.4.20-6)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-6 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi
initrd /initrd-2.4.20-6.img
title DOS
rootnoverify (hd0,2)
chainloader +1
[root@localhost root]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hdb2 47229 60801 109025122+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdb3 7297 39395 257835217+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb4 * 39397 47228 62910540 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb5 47229 60547 106984836 83 Linux
/dev/hdb6 60548 60801 2040223+ 82 Linux swap
Partition table entries are not in disk order
[root@localhost root]#