Fedora & WinXP - XP won't boot
I did a clean install of WinXP. I partitioned my 40 gig hd with 20 gig for windows leaving 20 for Fedora.
Then I installed Fedora Core2. I choose to use GRUB and otherwise I let the install program automate everything since I don't know what I'm doing. When I tried to reboot and go into XP, the screen reads: Booting WinXP rootnoverify(hd0,0) chainloader +1 and it just hangs there. Any ideas? Thanks. |
a lot of people seem to be having problems with this. check out these links to see if they help:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=217489 http://lwn.net/Articles/86835/ or try searching LQ because i've seen this a lot. sorry i don't really know what the answer is but there are many follow up questions that need to be asked about your question before you can solve the problem really. |
I installed without a problem, so can't directly help, BUT... if you go over to http://fedoraforum.org/ and post your problem, I guarantee that you'll have help in a hurry. Might also want to do a search there for 'xp grub'; I found over 200 entries, many with problems like yours.
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You posted this on the TMF Linux board, didn't you? I was going to answer you there but I'll answer you here instead.
What are the contents of your /boot/grub/menu.lst file? Please post them in a message here. How did you partition your HD? What partition did you install XP on, and which did you install Linux on? From a command line window, type in fdisk -ls and copy/paste the results to a message here. |
I had the same problem with winxp and fedora core 2...I followed this guide..
http://lwn.net/Articles/86835/ good luck and hope that works for you too. |
Thank you Sti2envy,
That's just what I needed! It's now booting ok. |
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