Grub Bootloader shows 2 Fedora 8 & 1 Win XP that doesn't work.
Hello everyone,
I have very little experience with Linux so I decided to install Fedora 8 KDE in what should have been a dual boot configuration with the existing Windows xp. The install went ok and when I rebooted I saw the two choices and booted into Fedora. Fedora loaded and I immediately was notified of updates available which I downloaded and installed. then I rebooted once more into fedora and the problems began. The error a"unexpected inconsistency: run fsck manually" appeared and I followed what appeared to be a check/fix procedure on the filesystem. I entered y to every fix request and then Fedora loaded and worked fine(as far as I could tell). Then I decided to check booting into win xp and that's when the bootloader presented 2 choices for Fedora along with Win xp. When I selected Win xp I got the "System Recovery" option screen. I quit the system recovery and rebooted into Fedora which loaded without problems. I would appreciate if someone could give me some assistance on how to access the Win xp again. Please tell me what info I should post(and how to get it since I'm not exactly a pro!). Following is fdisk -l although I fear it may not be much help. [root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x4b36bdea Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 547 8930 67344480 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 1 546 4385713+ b W95 FAT32 /dev/sda3 8931 8955 200812+ 83 Linux /dev/sda4 8956 9729 6217155 5 Extended /dev/sda5 8956 9729 6217123+ 8e Linux LVM Partition table entries are not in disk order Disk /dev/dm-0: 4227 MB, 4227858432 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 514 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/dm-1: 2080 MB, 2080374784 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 252 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x30307800 Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table And below is the grub.conf file: # 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 (hd0,2) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/sda default=0 timeout=8 splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Fedora (2.6.24.3-34.fc8) root (hd0,2) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.24.3-34.fc8 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.24.3-34.fc8.img title Fedora (2.6.23.1-42.fc8) root (hd0,2) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.img title WINDOWS XP rootnoverify (hd0,1) chainloader +1 Thanks in advance for bearing with me. |
In your grub.conf (urg, Does Fedora still use that ??? - I thought they'd finally given that away ...) change the XP stanza
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title WINDOWS XP |
Hello syg00,
what you indicated WORKED PERFECTLY!!Thanks so much! I was beginning to regret having ever taken the decision to try LINUX but now I'm psiched again. by the way, would I delete the repetition regarding the FEDORA (shown below) in order to eliminate one of the two FEDORA choices in the bootloader menu? title Fedora (2.6.24.3-34.fc8) root (hd0,2) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.24.3-34.fc8 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.24.3-34.fc8.img title Fedora (2.6.23.1-42.fc8) root (hd0,2) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.img |
Nope.
Always pays to have a fallback in case an update is broken for some reason. The package manager should look after cleaning that up. |
You're absolutely right. However I didn't imagine that an update could cause so much trouble, also, it was the first time I had booted into Fedora and I still had to figure out how to backup data from Fedora. In short, I don't have a backup. But thanks again for your help.
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