Cant access Vista

[ear-lution]

Hi

Just installed Fedora Core 8 (kernel 2.6.23.1-31fc8 on an x86_64) onto my Xeon desktop as a dual-boot environment with Vista Business.

I installed grub into the MBR, but when I try and boot Vista, I get:

Booting 'Vista'

rootnoverify (hd1,4)
chainloader +1


A disk read error occurred
Press Ctrt+Alt+Del to restart

Any ideas how I can re-enable access to Vista

Thanks

[leigh123linux]

Can you post the output for

su -
fdisk -l

and

su
cat /boot/grub/grub.conf

[ear-lution]

thx again Leigh

Can you post the output for

su -
fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x3d323d5b

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 9729 78148161 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 9730 9754 200812+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 9755 12365 20972857+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 12366 19457 56966490 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 12366 19457 56966458+ 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/sdb: 203.9 GB, 203928109056 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24792 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x1f3dbc43

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 2 24270 194940742+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb5 2 23748 190746367+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb6 23748 24270 4193280 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/dm-0: 203.9 GB, 203928043520 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24792 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x1f3dbc43

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/dm-0p1 * 2 24270 194940742+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/dm-0p5 2 23748 190746367+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/dm-0p6 23748 24270 4193280 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/dm-1: 199.6 GB, 199619320320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24269 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/dm-1p1 1 23747 190746367+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/dm-1p2 23747 24269 4193664+ 5 Extended
/dev/dm-1p5 23747 24269 4193280 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/dm-2: 195.3 GB, 195324280320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 23746 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x69205244

This doesn't look like a partition table
Probably you selected the wrong device.

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/dm-2p1 ? 13578 119522 850995205 72 Unknown
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/dm-2p2 ? 45382 79243 271987362 74 Unknown
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/dm-2p3 ? 10499 10499 0 65 Novell Netware 386
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/dm-2p4 167628 167631 25817+ 0 Empty
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/dm-3: 4293 MB, 4293918720 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 522 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x2052474d

This doesn't look like a partition table
Probably you selected the wrong device.

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/dm-3p1 ? 410 119791 958924038+ 70 DiskSecure Multi-Boot
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(365, 99, 47) logical=(409, 142, 41)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(371, 114, 37) logical=(119790, 20, 38)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/dm-3p2 ? 121585 234786 909287957+ 43 Unknown
Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(288, 115, 51) logical=(121584, 74, 6)
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(364, 116, 50) logical=(234785, 103, 28)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/dm-3p3 ? 14052 14052 5 72 Unknown
Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(288, 116, 47) logical=(14051, 94, 29)
Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(372, 101, 51) logical=(14051, 94, 38)
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/dm-3p4 164483 164486 25945 0 Empty
Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(0, 0, 0) logical=(164482, 130, 1)
Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(0, 0, 0) logical=(164485, 188, 41)
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/dm-4: 53.9 GB, 53989081088 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 6563 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/dm-4 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/dm-5: 4294 MB, 4294967296 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 522 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x30307800

Disk /dev/dm-5 doesn't contain a valid partition table

[ear-lution]

Can you post the output for

su
cat /boot/grub/grub.conf

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,1)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.23.1-31.fc8)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-31.fc8 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.23.1-31.fc8.img
title Vista
rootnoverify (hd1,4)
chainloader +1

[leigh123linux]

try


su -
gedit /boot/grub/grub.conf



# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,1)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.23.1-31.fc8)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-31.fc8 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.23.1-31.fc8.img
title Vista
root (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

[gadgetwiz]

Cant access Vista
Consider yourself lucky. :D

Sorry about that, I couldn't resist!! :p

[ear-lution]

try

title Vista
root (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1
yup, that did it :) thx loads

btw, is ur avatar from eve online?

[ear-lution]

Consider yourself lucky. :D

lol, yeah I was wondering how long it would take ;)

[leigh123linux]

yup, that did it :) thx loads

btw, is ur avatar from eve online?

Yes my avatar was from eve online :)

[ear-lution]

Yes my avatar was from eve online :)
sweet, do u run it under wine

[leigh123linux]

sweet, do u run it under wine

I don't use eve anymore and I am not sure if it runs under wine