Hello everybody,

Well I just finished installing both Fedora & WinXP on my computer, I had fedora installed on my primary HD with 11GB, and Win in my secondary HD with 20GG... now Fedora runs just fine, the only problem is GRUB won't boot WinXP, instead it showed this:

WinXP

rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader 1+

So I opened GRUB's menu.lst and change that for this:

title Winxp

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

But... as you guessed it didn't work or I wouldn't be here, so instead of booting XP, it asked me to remove and cd or media and press any button, and after doing so the screen went black and then only said GRUB...

So, does anybody know how to solve this problem?, well if anyone does please let me know.

Thanks.

this is from my grub.conf (sorry - had to pick it from an old post, since I'm running stuff on Windows at the moment, but I'm pretty sure it's the version in use).

I have windows on drive 0 and FC5 on drive 1 (sda and sdb)

Works for me.

See thread "FC5 and GRUB"

title Start Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
map (hd1) (hd0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
makeactive
chainloader +1

By putting the rootnoverify command after remaping the drives, you've basically told grub to look in the Linux partition for the xp bootloader.

Putting rootnoverify first in the sequence, then remaping the drives, allows grub to follow the remaping and still locate the xp bootloader.

change this:
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
boot

to this:
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
boot

or this:
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
boot

Looks very right to me, good exposition, bigrigdriver.