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Vista + FC10 dual boot help

Hello...I'm having trouble accessing Vista after trying to setup a dual boot. I'm a newbie to Linux...what I did was create a partition in Vista by shrinking the drive size. I do not remember the specifics of what I chose when installing FC10, but I selected the 28GB partition I made to install...and I guess I messed up on the Bootloader setup. Now Linux is working fine, but if I restart the computer I cannot access Vista. I can see my "OS" filesystem on Linux with all the Windows files, but can't access it on startup. The computer is a Dell, and on startup when choosing the bootup type, I assumed the hard drive would be for Vista, and the "utility partition" would be for Linux, but on either, Linux is the only option available.

What can I do to get Vista back?

Thanks.

edit: this is the display of fdisk -l

Code:

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250000000000 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30394 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Disk identifier: 0x80000000



  Device Boot      Start        End      Blocks  Id  System

/dev/sda1              1          8      64228+  de  Dell Utility

/dev/sda2              9        1314    10485760    7  HPFS/NTFS

/dev/sda3  *        1314      26825  204916732    7  HPFS/NTFS

/dev/sda4          26826      30394    28667992+  5  Extended

/dev/sda5          26826      26851      208813+  83  Linux

/dev/sda6          26852      30394    28459116  8e  Linux LVM

and this is menu.lst

Code:

# 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 (hd0,4)

#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00

#          initrd /initrd-version.img

#boot=/dev/sda

default=0

timeout=5

splashimage=(hd0,4)/grub/splash.xpm.gz

hiddenmenu

title Fedora (2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.x86_64)

        root (hd0,4)

        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.x86_64 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet

        initrd /initrd-2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.x86_64.img

title Fedora (2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64)

        root (hd0,4)

        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64 ro root=UUID=95d95152-128f-4d72-a057-a56bb308776d rhgb quiet

        initrd /initrd-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64.img

title Other

        rootnoverify (hd0,1)

        chainloader +1

Quote:

After looking at your grub it is there edit it so windows has a title. and you can see it instead of other.

when you start up there is a grub splash sreen I can't remember if it is an esc key or and up or down key that shows the windows option to boot. good luck you just need to know what key to push to show the whole grub menu. Or it is showing and it is called other .Then you will see windows opton to boot.

Quote:

# section to load Windows 2000
# entry 1
title windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

yours

Quote:

title Other
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1

You might try changing your entry for vista to:

title Other
rootnoverify (hd0,2)
chainloader +1

That's the only ntfs partition marked active and sda2 is too small (whatever it is) and sda1 is just the utility partition for Dell.

I agree with yancek - and while you're in there, comment out the "hiddenmenu" line so you can see the boot menu (add a # in column 1).

Quote:

Originally Posted by yancek (Post 3448829)

good eye I missed that been a while since I seen a utility setup for dell,compaq had one also yeas ago.