Hi,

I have installed Fedora 14 in my new hard drive and other two drives installed with RHEL5 and windows XP. Before adding new drive my system was booted up correctly both operating systems (ie RHEL5 and XP). After adding Fedora, I could able to boot Fedora4 and RHEL5, but windows XP is not loading and showing blank screen with blinking cursor on top left.

My grub conf is:

default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.35.14-97.fc14.x86_64)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.35.14-97.fc14.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_abc-lv_root rd_LVM_LV=vg_abc/lv_root rd_LVM_LV=vg_abc/lv_swap rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=us-acentos rhgb quiet
initrd /initramfs-2.6.35.14-97.fc14.x86_64.img
title Red Hat EL
root (hd2,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-155.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-155.el5.img
title Other
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1


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geometry (hd0)
drive 0x80: C/H/S = 8924/255/63, The number of sectors = 143374738, /dev/sda
Partition num: 0, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
Partition num: 1, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x8e
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geometry (hd1)
drive 0x81: C/H/S = 8924/255/63, The number of sectors = 143374738, /dev/sdb
Partition num: 0, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7
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geometry (hd2)
drive 0x82: C/H/S = 8924/255/63, The number of sectors = 143374738, /dev/sdc
Partition num: 0, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
Partition num: 1, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x8e
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fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sdb: 73.4 GB, 73407865856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8924 cylinders, total 143374738 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xae5cae5c

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 63 143364059 71681998+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdc: 73.4 GB, 73407865856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8924 cylinders, total 143374738 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x1459fc0c

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 63 208844 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sdc2 208845 143364059 71577607+ 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/sda: 73.4 GB, 73407865856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8924 cylinders, total 143374738 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0006c9b0

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 1026047 512000 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 1026048 143374335 71174144 8e Linux LVM

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From above configuration
(hd0,0) Fedora14 running
(hd1,0) Windows XP running
(hd2,0) RHEL5 running.

Thanks for your help in resolving this issue.

You need the map entries because windows is on the seconddrive. Change your xp entry in the grub.conf file to that below:

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Thank you very much for your reply.
I have done before same way, but not sure why it was not worked. Maybe I would have given in different order.

Now it is working perfectly alright.
Thanks once again.

rams be warned
fedora 14 is about to hit it's end of life

in a month there will NEVER be any updates, no security fixes,no new software
no nothing - it will be dead

you might want to install fedora 16 in a few weeks