Dual Boot, Grub, FC3-WinXpSP2, 2 drives. No go.

From: Nat Gross (natgross.rentalsystems_at_verizon.net)
Date: 02/28/05

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    Hi;
    I installed FC3 on a WinXP-sp2 system, whose c: drive was NOT being used
    (for real), or so I thought. And gave the entire drive, hda, to FC3. I
    reasoned that since my winXP booted into drive E:, the second drive,
    hdb, Grub would have no issues with booting Windows. However, although
    it boots FC3 nicely, when I elect to boot xp, it displays 'rootnoverify
    (hd1,0) chainloader +1' and stops. Due to the partioning of hdb (as
    listed below), I have tried hd1,1 as well, with the same results.
    The hardware is as follows:
    Dell Intel 1.6ghz, 768 meg ram, 2 hard drives, 20gig and 60gig.
    Disk info:
    hda:
    hda1 1-33, /boot, 259meg, ext3.
    hda2 34-164 swap, 1 gig
    hda3 165-2498, /, 18gig, ext3.

    hdb:
    hdb1 1-3633, 28.4gig, fa32. (not mounted, or touched with Linux.)
    hdb2 3634-7299,28.7gig, Extended. ( ditto)
    hdb5 3634-7299,28.7gig,ntfs. (don't know why its listed twice. whatever.)

    The /boot/grub/grub.conf:
    # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
    # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
    # root (hd0,0)
    # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda3
    # initrd /initrd-version.img
    #boot=/dev/hda
    default=0
    timeout=5
    splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
    hiddenmenu
    password --md5 blah
    title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
        initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
    title WinXP
        rootnoverify (hd1,1)
        chainloader +1
    =========================
    As noted above, I also tried rootnoverify (hd1,0) .

    Thank you
    -nat 

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