Re: FC4 installaion bogged up WINXP

On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 00:51 +0530, Deboo ^ wrote:
Can't copy/paste it right now but it's a simple debian's default grub having
a debian section containing
root (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-4 root=/dev/hda5
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-4

And a windows section:
root (hd0,1)
savedefault
chainloader +1

That's all. I remember it since I tried many times to boot.

I tried using fixboot using winxp ercovery console but didn't help. I
tried the install-mbr command which is similar to fdisk /mbr but that
didn't work as well. hal.dll still is reported to be missing by XP.
Any help appreciated.

Regards,
Deboo
That is interesting since the comparable grub.conf file in FC4 looks
like this:
title Fedora Core (2.6.15-1.1833_FC4)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4 ro root=/dev/hda5
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4.img
title Other
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

These don't look compatible to me in the Windows portion but I have
never looked at a debian grub.conf.

On 5/14/07, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 13:58 +0530, Deboo ^ wrote:
I reinstalled FC4 thinking to do a clean text based install and to try
to solve yum problem and report anything here.

I already have debian installed with WinXP as dual boot. I installed
fedora but did not let it install grub when asked. When I got the
normal grub menu after install, I manually put in the parameters for
root, kernel and initrd to boot in to FC4 and it booted fine.

Booting debian also works fine but now when booting XP, it gives an
error saying HAL.dll is corrupted and to resinstall the OS. Now what
did fedora change to make this happen? Is there a solution to this? I
just had reinstalled XP a few days ago and don't want to go in to
reinstalling everything again.

Regards,
Deboo
What does your grub.conf look like?
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