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I have an old laptop I wanted to dual boot between Windows XP Pro, and FC3. So i parted the single hard drive so that they both had the same amount of space. I installed both operating sytems without any problems but now i can't boot into windows XP. I can boot into Linux, but not windows. My grub.conf file looks like this (couldn't be bothered typing out the whole linux kernel bit-it works fine):
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,1) /boot/grub/splashimage.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core
root (hd0, 1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2......... blah blah etc.
title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
So if i select Windows XP from the grub menu it brings up that screen that says it was unable to boot windows-you know the one i mean-where it asks would you like to start windows with networking, or last known configuration, or normally etc. None of these options work-it just leaves me with a blank screen that goes no where!
So does anyone know how i can resolve this issue? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
You should be able to boot from your XP CD and it should ask you if you want to boot from hard drive, repair, install, etc. Select repair. Then let it do it's magic. Then you'll have to boot from your linux CD in rescue mode and reinstall grub to hd0. I think the command is grub-install hd0, but you'll have to google on that one...
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