hey sorry for the trouble but i had bought a new hard drive and put fedora core 3 on it
after that i reformatted my windows drive and did linux rescue

then chroot /mnt/sysimage
then /sbin/grub-install /dev/hda2

now when i start my computer it says loading windows in 3 ..2..1..0.. seconds in the grub screen and unless i click a key and boot fedora it will keep doing that
what did i do wrong and how can i fix it


thanks jay

Windows won't boot ? How sad

Try (in command line) "cfdisk" , see what your partition setup is
and modify grub as needed.

ok how do i modify grub
i know the windows partition is hda2
but it just keeps saying loading windows 3 2 1 0 and then it flashes and does it again
how will changing it do anything

Did you check with cfdisk?
If so, which partition has the bootable flag?
please show output of cfdisk and I might be able to help.

it's easier if you just post the output of this command:

fdisk -l

also post your grub.conf file...

[root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 784 6297448+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 * 785 16868 129194730 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/hdb: 122.9 GB, 122942324736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14946 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes[root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 784 6297448+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 * 785 16868 129194730 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/hdb: 122.9 GB, 122942324736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14946 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hdb2 14 14946 119949322+ 8e Linux LVM
[root@localhost ~]#


Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hdb2 14 14946 119949322+ 8e Linux LVM
[root@localhost ~]#


# 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 (hd1,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=2
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667smp)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667smp ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667smp.img
title Fedora Core-up (2.6.9-1.667)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
title WINDOWS
rootnoverify (hd1,1)
chainloader +1

also i tried chancing it to rootnoverify (hd2,0) and that didnt work either

Edit /boot/grub/grub.conf

Where it says 'Default=2' ... Change it to 'Default=0'

Now if you WANT to boot to Windows (horrors), you'll have to hit the down arrow twice.

Personal recommendation: Comment out the 2nd Linux Kernal section in grub.conf ... and delete any kernals older than your 2nd one from /boot/

Oops! Now that I re-read your problem description, that's probably not it ... Oh well, it might help somebody by accident.

........
A note: Comparing your rootnoverify statement to mine...
Yours: rootnoverify (hd1,1)
Mine: rootnoverify (hd0,0)

well my windows hard drive is listed as hda2 so i figured that would make it hd1 partition 1
but it keeps reloading the grub that way ive also tried adding extra to the entry grub.conf

map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd1,1)
chainloader +1

but that didnt work it just says

Windows
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1
Grub_
and then it just sticks there
it does the same with a combination of different numbers like hd 0,1 or 0,0 or 1,0 or 1,1 they all do the same either reload or no partition found
or with the extra i added to grub.conf it freezes

any ideas