Problem booting into Vista after installing fedora 11
 

Hi Experts,

I have recently installed fedora11 on top of vista. I think my installation was successful, but the problem occurs, when i have a choice to select the OS to boot in, Its giving me only two options fedora and others, there is no option for vista and when i log into others, the system restarts.

After entering fedora, I have tried modifying menu.lst by adding entry
title Windows Vista Home Premium
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

Now i got windows vista option when i restart, but when i select the vista option, its going some blue screen with 3 options like
1. Memory Test
2. some Hardware test (not sure)
3. Exit

I tried running the memory test and other test, but at some point in time, its aborting the test and restarting and its also restarting when i select exit option.......

Please help!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks in advance,
Habeeb

I'm not on fedora nor vista (I have ubuntu and xp) but did you run vista before re-partitioning your disk?

print the results of fdisk -l here

Hi Shahz,

Sorry for the delayed reply, i was out of station.
Below are the results of fdisk -l:

Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xa0000000

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 25 200781 6 FAT16
/dev/sda2 * 26 1984 15728640 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 1984 29262 219111420 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 29262 38914 77528064 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 29262 36911 61440000 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 * 36911 36936 204799+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 36936 38914 15881215+ 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/dm-0: 10.9 GB, 10993270784 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1336 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: 5268 MB, 5268045824 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 640 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table

It looks like your Vista partition is on root(hd0,1) instead of root(hd0,0).

I have changed the (hd0,0) to (hd0,2) in

title Windows Vista Home Premium
root (hd0,2)
makeactive
chainloader +1

and its working perfertly.

Thanks for all ur replies.
habeeb.

is that root (hd0,2) or (hd0,1)

because your fdisk -l output says

/dev/sda2 * 26 1984 15728640 7 HPFS/NTFS


in this case it should be root (hd0,1)

check again!