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yianni
26th September 2007, 11:56 PM
i had xp installed then made a partition for fedora after installing and restarting i cannot go into xp from grub, when i click on it it restarts the computer and goes back to grub my grub.conf gile for xp is this

title Windows
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

Dies
27th September 2007, 01:06 AM
That's a good start with the grub entry but also give us a

su -
fdisk -ls

so we can see what your drives look like

and if Windows is even there anymore :eek:

yianni
27th September 2007, 01:18 AM

hehe my widnows is there heres my fdisk

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 11473 92156841 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 11474 18732 58307917+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 18733 27851 73248367+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 27852 30401 20482875 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 27852 30273 19454683+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 30274 30401 1028128+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 120.0 GB, 120060444672 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14596 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 14595 117234306 7 HPFS/NTFS