Re: Problem dual booting XP and Fedora 4.

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Date: 31 Oct 2005 21:18:38 -0800

OK, I tried the following:

1. boot into "linux rescue".
2. modify grub.conf to boot XP from (hd1, 1)
3. grub-install --recheck /dev/sda

grub was installed on the correct MBR (hard drive 1 with XP). After
rebooting, I got the options to boot either XP or Fedora. But neither
worked.

When booting Fedora, I got the following error:
root (hd0,1)
Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7.
Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition.

When booting XP, I got the following:
rootnoverify (hd1, 1)
chainloader +1

Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format.

device.map shows:

(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/hdc
(hd1) /dev/sda

Originally it only contains the first two mappings. The 3rd was added
after I did a grub-install.

fdisk -l of /dev/hdc and /dev/sda shows basically what I listed in my
original e-mail with

/dev/hdc2 being the root (/) mount of Fedora and /dev/sda2 the C: drive
where XP was installed. Both of these two rows of the fdisk output
showed a '*' at the boot column.

grub.conf is as follows:

title Fedora Core
    root (hd0,1)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz...
    initrd /boot/initrd....
title Windows XP
    rootnoverify(hd1,1)
    chainloader +1

I've had three sleepless nights and rebooted the machine at least 50
times. There must be something that I missed. I'd appreciate it if
someone could steer me to the right direction...

Thanks,

----Ryan

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