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Old 09-30-2007, 09:20 AM   #1
madhuvarasa86
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Angry vista Vs fedora 6 or 7


I am new to fedora and also to linux
I have installed vista and installed fedora after that.
After that I am not able to boot to vista.
Please help me..............



but the problem is when press enter on other the system is restarting. It is not booting to vista instead it is showing the grub menu again and again and tge problem repeats.please help.
 
Old 09-30-2007, 11:14 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by madhuvarasa86 View Post
I am new to fedora and also to linux
I have installed vista and installed fedora after that.
After that I am not able to boot to vista.
Please help me..............



but the problem is when press enter on other the system is restarting. It is not booting to vista instead it is showing the grub menu again and again and tge problem repeats.please help.
well i can not realy help you on this but one thing well you can just stick with fedora core 7 an ply around with it an get use to. an if not if you have a different computer install vista or fedora on it an leve the out computer vista or fedora so you can get use to both. sorry if i counld not have helped you
 
Old 09-30-2007, 01:59 PM   #3
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I don't know if there's any special tricks for vista, but we might be able to see if there's something wrong with your configuration. Can you post what your /boot/grub/menu.lst looks like? Also the output of fdisk -l would tell us what your partitions look like (need to be root for this)
 
Old 09-30-2007, 11:55 PM   #4
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Can you give a description how you installed fedora? Is it on a separate HD, or did you partition your HD?

According to this article, you can not use the Linux partitioner to resize your vista partition.

If you need to retry, here is an article how to setup a dual boot using Ubuntu; in your case just use the getting started part in the beginning.
 
Old 10-20-2007, 06:41 AM   #5
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Hi,
Currently i am using Xp and fedora core 6
I want to dual boot vista and fedora 6 or 7
The details of fdisk -l are
[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

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 2550 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 2551 9728 57657285 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 2551 5100 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 5101 7012 15358108+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda7 7013 8261 10032561 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda8 8262 9536 10241406 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 9537 9728 1542208+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 4127 MB, 4127194624 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 501 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 502 4030432 b W95 FAT32
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(500, 254, 63) logical=(501, 196, 14)
[root@localhost ~]#
[root@localhost ~]#



details of grub.conf

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
# root (hd0,7)
# kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda8
# initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=1
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,7)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen)
root (hd0,7)
kernel /boot/xen.gz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
module /boot/initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen.img
title WIN XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

i was getting a similar thing when vista installed .looking at this please help.........
 
  


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