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Dual Booting Fedora/XP

This has been asked before but none of the circumstanses seem identical to mine, nor did any of the solutions work, so here I go:

Primary HD: Linux (all of it, /boot included)
Secondary HD: XP

Trying to dual boot with grub but when i select xp all i get is:

Booting 'windows xp'

rootnoverify (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainload +1

hi
post ur grub.conf here and
"fdisk - l " output here of both hdd

also is u windows partition active????

regards

Isn't this the kernel 2.6 error some users get after changing the size of a window partition? I had this happen to me, and found myself very lucky I updated everything I had before installing. I had to reformat the whole HD, since nothing worked for me either.

I hope you find a solution. I didn't.

Edit the
/boot/grub/grub.conf
file and remove line
makeactive

while i cannot access the computer at the moment (i will post the requested data tomorrow), i can boot windows if i make the windows hd the 1st hd

hi

pl. post the data along with error messages u get ...

regards

here is the requested info: (when i try to load with the xp hd as primary master i get an "error loading os" message) O_O:

Code:

[root@localhost root]# fdisk -l /dev/hda

 

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          6      48163+  83  Linux

/dev/hda2              7        7839    62918572+  83  Linux

/dev/hda3            7840        8035    1574370  82  Linux swap

Code:

[root@localhost root]# fdisk -l /dev/hdb

 

Disk /dev/hdb: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes

16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77545 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

 

  Device Boot      Start        End      Blocks  Id  System

/dev/hdb1  *          1      67200    33868768+  7  HPFS/NTFS

/dev/hdb2          67209      77536    5205091+  f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)

/dev/hdb5          67209      77536    5205060    b  W95 FAT32

grub.conf:

Code:

# 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 (hd0,0)

#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda2

#          initrd /initrd-version.img

#boot=/dev/hda

default=1

timeout=10

splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358)

        root (hd0,0)

        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet

        initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img

title Windows XP

        rootnoverify (hd1,0)

        chainloader +1

also, how do i check if my partition is active? also also, partition magic (EVIL!) give me error 110 when using it:
partition table number of sectors inconsistant

hi
when u run

fdisk -/l /dev/hda

u get a * in the boot column, indicating this is a partiton which is capable of
booting (or active)

regards