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RacerD 04-15-2004 05:02 AM

problem w/ Grub booting a Win XP Partition
 
ok,
I have read many peoples problems and fixes and searched multiple pages for the solution. The only one i could come up with is take my SKS and shoot the hell out of my pc.

:mad:

i added an additional drive to my pc, already containing 2 with one partitioned into 2 drives, on my pc to experiment with 64 bit OS's and i thought i should make the switch again. Since 64bit games are being released on Linux :)

I have Fedora Core2 installed and running, but i can't boot back into my windows partition. I have tried a lot of stuff. i will just list my drives and stuff.


Device Boot Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 * 1 4972 39937558+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdc2 4973 7475 20105347+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdc5 4973 7475 20105316 7 HPFS/NTFS

that is where my windows xp partition is

title Microsoft Blows
rootnoverify (hd1, 0)
chainloader +1



can someone help please

Demonbane 04-15-2004 05:21 AM

tried
Code:

rootnoverify (hd1, 0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
chainloader +1

?

JZL240I-U 04-15-2004 06:57 AM

If your XP is on hdc1 (not entirely clear from your post) it should read:

rootnoverify (hd2,0)

RacerD 04-15-2004 09:29 PM

it would be hd2 if there where a hda.... but there isn't....i know i didn't say that though so my bad

RacerD 04-15-2004 09:32 PM

no dice, someone please help :( would a listing of all my harddrive helps??? or should i just reinstall win xp and use that boot loader?

code:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
rootnoverify (hd1, 0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
chainloader +1
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

witeshark 04-15-2004 09:57 PM

Did you set the first drive/boot record as the xp?

RacerD 04-15-2004 10:03 PM

does have a boot thingy, i checked under fdisk

witeshark 04-15-2004 10:13 PM

So it is there and the first possible MBR is xp but it simply won't boot up?

RacerD 04-15-2004 10:16 PM

error 11 is what i get

witeshark 04-15-2004 10:20 PM

I think an xp reinstall may be the only way then

RacerD 04-15-2004 10:41 PM

i am going urinate on Bill Gates grave....... course just to clear any confusion up... I am not going to cause his death, i was just thinking i would out live him :) i can be patient

Demonbane 04-16-2004 12:13 AM

what happens if you set the bios to boot from the xp drive?

RacerD 04-16-2004 12:16 AM

i don't know, don't you need a boot.ini file ? i guess i could mount them and check to see if one is there

Demonbane 04-16-2004 12:19 AM

well if u had winxp on a single drive before it should be there, otherwise you wouldnt be able to boot winxp at all.

RacerD 04-16-2004 12:58 AM

tnen the answer is no... it wasn't on a single drive.........

the boot.ini stuff was on another drive


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