When I try to dual boot into WindowsXP all I get on the monitor GRUB GRUB GRUB
continuously and I can't get into XP.
Booting into Linux is no problem
Any Ideals ?

Jim

can you post your /boot/grub/menu.lst (or grub.conf) and what patition/drive your windows system resides on?

What does your grub.conf say? Mine looks like this:

default=0
timeout=30
splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
password --md5 ...
title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.14_FC3)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.14_FC3 ro root=LABEL=/ acpi=on
initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.14_FC3.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.10-1.14_FC2.stk16)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.14_FC2.stk16 ro root=LABEL=/ acpi=on
initrd /initrd-2.6.10-1.14_FC2.stk16.img
title Windows 2000
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
[

This is a dell laptop Inspiron8600 and , the first partition is reserved for dell utilities, the second partition
is for NTFS (XP), and hda3, hda4 is Linux.
I'am using the GAG boot loader to boot between XP and Linux , even if I boot from the Linux splash screen
into XP I get the Continous running of GRUB GRUB GRUB.
I can still boot into Linux.
Thanks for your help.

Jim


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 (hd0,2)
# kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda3
# initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda3
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.1240_FC4)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1240_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.11-1.1240_FC4.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.1236_FC4)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1236_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.11-1.1236_FC4.img
title Other
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1

Try this in Grub.conf:

title XP
unhide (hd0,1)
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1
makeactive
boot

GAG uses partition hiding. Windows will not boot from a hidden partition.

Gave those grub setting a try in grub.conf and they had no affect on booting. No change.

Thanks
Jim

What does your partition info look like. Most people have WinXP on their first partition. Grub would define that as (hd0,0). Try...

title WinXP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

hd0,0 is the Dell test partition, I guess it has to do with Bios.
hd0,1 is the XP partition and I do believe it has been corrupted.
I ran Knoppix and Knoppix couldn't mount the partition either.

Jim

I had that problem once.

I fixed the MBR (As I have a dual boot I used windows fixmbr utility) and reinstalled Grub.

If this helps press the tanks button bellow.

You can follow the instructions from here

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...d_tro_ldau.asp