Fedora-Windows Boot Screen Problem
 

I have one 40GB hard drive that I created 2 partitions on it. I installed Windows XP first, then I installed Fedora Core 1. I used the automatic installation method and installed the Personal Desktop option. I used the GRUB boot log and changed it to read Windows XP. Completed the installation. Everything went well Fedora installed like a breeze. After rebooting into Fedora a couple of times. I then tried to boot into the Windows and on the black boot screen I get the following message, after I chose to boot into windows:

Booting Windows XP
ROOTNOVERIFY (HD1,0)
CHAINLOADER +1

everything stalls and nothing happens after this screen. What have I done wrong? This is my first experience with Linux period. Can someone please help me on this.

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Did you happen to hibernate WinXP? If so, you might want to restore the MBR using a DOS disk (I don't remember the exact command); boot Windows, do a clean shutdown, use a Linux boot disk, and reinstall GRUB to the MBR. If thats not what you did... it should work.

It's interesting that the Anaconda installer made it HD1. If you only have one hard drive, and I'm assuming that Windows is installed to the first partition on that drive, then I would think it should read HD0. I would open up the terminal and edit that line in grub.conf to read HD0 instead HD1. Grub.conf is probably somewhere either in /boot or /boot/grub, IIRC. I've had a similar setup (dual booting XP and Fedora) on one of my computers before. This is what the section to boot XP read:

Thank you for replying
I tried what you suggested and this did not work.
I have one hard drive windows is on the 1st partition and fedora is on the second partition.
When the GRUB screen comes up and it shows Fedora Core and Windows XP ans the two choices
When I select the Fedora line and press "e" for edit it shows
root (hd0,0) the next line it shows
kernel/imlinz-2.2.22....and so on

When I select the Windows XP line and press "e" for edit it shows
root (hd1,0)
chainloader+1

When I tried to make the change as you suggested it came up with an error.

One question does the GRUB Boot Loader for the MBR reside in the Windows partition or the Fedora partition?

Grub's bootstrap resides in the hard drive's MBR. The main grub resides (usually) in /boot and the boot sector of the linux partition.

Ok, I know for damn sure its wrong that it puts hd1. Becuase hd1 refers to a second Hard drive, NOT a second partition.

The drive is done by "hdx" where x is 0 when there is only one HD.

and the ",x" where x is 0 refers to it being the first partition on the HD.

Well, I am not sure where you stuff is on the hd, try putting it to "hd0,1" for windows, because if FC1 boots when it says "hd0,0" then that is on the first partition. Perhaps it changed your configuration when you installed fedora.

Also, how did you partition with fedora? Becuase I am not sure what the automatic one does, and depending on how you changed the HD confiuration with FC1 installer, you may have deleted windows from your system.

Hi Pauli and Vandeboy2k
Thank you for your input, I was checking with the windows startup disk and some how during the automatic installation it wiped out my 1st partition where windows xp was installed. So today I will start over from scratch and reload everything and see what happens this time. I used the instructions that was on the overclockers.com site see below
http://www.overclockersclub.com/guid..._fedora_xp.php
something went wrong somewhere. I will get back to you and let you know what happened the second time around.

I will get back to you when I reinstall Fedora

Thanks again
Richard

Whoa, whoa, whoa, let's slow things down here....

Shouldn't the hard drive be denoted as a letter, such as a, b,c? The number represents which partition. So I would change HD1 to hda

nah jensen, not there. Its (hd0,0) for that kind of thing, hda and whatnot is for in linux. Aka mount /dev/hda1, its not for bootloaders. its different, trust me here.

And for richard, good luck man :) If you are willing to spend a bit of cash, I would buy Partition magic (for all you warez lovers it out there in droves, even on kazaa, but I would buy it, well worth the money) and use that in windows to make the linux partitions. It is much much easier, for you do not have to worry about deleteing the windows partition.