Every time I've used GRUB, those two lines (rootnoverify and chainloader) were the only ones needed. If Windows is in hda, then (hd0,0) should be ok too. You may try this if you like to, I'm just not 100% sure if it changes anything:
Code:
title Windows
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
Or probably
rootnoverify there instead of just
root, but anyway.
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After some serious fight with GRUB loader, I finally managed to start my freshly installed Fedora Core 4. I use this older distribution, b/c my PC is not that powerful to maintain newer ones.
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My own experience is that Core 5 (especially; haven't tried FC6 that much yet) was somehow not so heavy than 4. Especially the desktop environment it used seemed to work a bit lighter than on 4 (I might just imagine it but I
did feel that way; there was no drawback in resources updating from Core 4 to 5). The machine that was running the Fedora Cores was a 800MHz/256MB pc, without hardware 3d accelaration card, so some might say it's "not that powerful"
later an additional 256MB of RAM was bought (cost something like 10€, not expensive) and it's affect was a somewhat huge boost in the speed (even heavier programs started running just fine). And I guess even older hardware could run Fedora Core 5 (maybe 6 too, especially if you have nothing against taking some of the huge effects off).
So, as a sidenote/advice, I suggest that you 1) buy more RAM, 256MB stick is pretty cheap but does a lot, 512MB even more; and 2) if you can, backup your data and try to update to Fedora Core 5. It was really a better experience than Core 4, in many ways, and I'm pretty confident you won't hate it but rather like the change. Especially if you use Gnome as your desktop environment, it has become more effective as it has evolved (well KDE too, but not as much as Gnome).
