Dual Boot Windows/Fedora On a Dell Problems

Believer · 08-27-2004, 11:06 PM

Two seperate harddrives....
1) Master - 200 GB with Linux installed on a 40GB Partition and 160 GB partition of free space
2) Slave - 60 GB with Windows installed

Using GRUB to dual boot... works well and can get me into Linux (Fedora 1) no problem. When I choose windows however, it sends me to a Dell Hardware Diagnostic tests... even passing the tests I can't get into windows. Anyone have any advice?

bruno buys · 08-27-2004, 11:39 PM

This is more like a workaround, not a fix, but if you can get inside linux, install smart boot manager. It will build a boot floppy that is, very likely, able to boot your windows.
And post here your menu.lst from grub, so we can have a look at your configs.

http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/3.7/

masand · 08-28-2004, 12:39 AM

hi there
i do not have a laptop but i saw this happening at this forum to someone wiht a dell laptop
so u may also try this

go to BIOS n d set ur primary slave ,and others to auto
if this doen'y works out then
can u boot windows after removing ur grub

regards