Re: Fedora & XP dual boot MBR problem?
From: Mike DeMicco (blaster186REMOVE_THIS_at_comcast.net)
Date: 02/20/04
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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 16:44:10 -0800
In article <cf15fbe7.0402091201.7b28f70e@posting.google.com>,
john_does_not_read@yahoo.com (john) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a new HP Pavilion a430n, with XP pre-installed (hda1 & hda2).
> I moved a 9GB IDE drive from my old PC, which was 'hdb' over there &
> 'hdb' over here too. This old drive had Redhat 6.2 on it.
>
> I got fresh Fedora disks from cheapbytes, and had seemingly no
> problems upgrading hdb's RH 6.2 up to Fedora. I was very careful
> throughout the installation of Fedora to say "DON'T TOUCH HDA!" in
> every possible way, including telling Fedora that I'll boot from a
> floppy, and so don't touch the MBR!
>
> Well, Fedora installed fine, and boots from a floppy, but XP is no
> longer booting (just hangs on startup with a cursor flashing as if
> there's just no OS.)
Did you jumper the drives correctly (master, slave, cable select)? I
think the computer is trying to boot from hdb instead of hda. Also check
your BIOS to verify that the Windows drive is the hard disk that it
tries to boot from first.
>
> HP has a built in "PC System Recovery" feature that's runnable from
> the BIOS splash screen, but running this didn't fix the problem.
>
> ANY SUGGESTIONS?
> (besides the "go linux only"....I really need to use XP for a few
> things, OK?)
>
>
> Thanks!
> John
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