Dual Boot / Xp Upgrade
 

Hi folks...My first post! My PC has 2 250 MB hard drives, which had windows 2000 on the master, and FC4 on the slave. Its been this way for probably 3 or 4 years with no problems. Well I had an issue with windows 2000, and after trying for a few weeks to fix it, I decided to upgrade to windows XP. Well now when GRUB comes up, and I select the windows OS, nothing happens. It actually goes back to the BIOS, does the memory test and lands back on GRUB. The FC4 comes up fine. What did I do wrong and how can I fix it. Im trying hot to lose my emails, and address book. Thanks, I appreciate it!

Hello and welcome to LQ!

Could you please post the output of so we can see how grub is supposed to find and load windows?

Having your partition information would also be helpful so log in as root and run the command: fdisk -l and post the output.

Thanks guys, I really appreciate it.


# 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 (hd0,1)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=1
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
# hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img
title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1




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[root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 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/hda1 * 1 14787 118776546 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 14788 14800 104422+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 14801 14946 1172745 8e Linux LVM

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 14946 120053713+ 8e Linux LVM
[root@localhost ~]#

if you are using fedora 4 ?? DO NOT use that old version

Please install the current fedora 12