Error 12: Invalid device requested - Win 7 + Fedora 11

[cromin]

hi, I have installed Windows 7 followed by Fedora 11.

Everytime I install Fedora 11 with Win 7, the first to boot, I get BOOTMGR missing.

Later I used

"df -h" command to see the disk file usage
"fdisk -l" to see the info regarding Disk Partitions.

Went into the /boot/grub/menu.lst and modified the order.

I set the partition where I find the bootmgr.exe.mui, there was another file named "memtest.exe.mui in the same file.

I navigated to the above said through Fedora 11.
Located inside the Win 7 installed directory /boot/en-US/

When I changed the menu.lst file, I get a new error

Error 12: Invalid device requested when I tried to boot Win 7.

Does that mean that Fedora 11 GRUB is not getting the bootmgr.exe.mui since its 2 levels inside the boot directory ??



Please help me solve the problem....

Thank you.

[stoat]

Hello cromin,

What you posted there does not clearly explain (to me, anyway) what is going on. GRUB does not deal with Bootmgr.exe or any other file in the Windows partition. GRUB boots Windows by using the chainloader command to load and execute the boot sector code of the Windows partition. I think you could clarify matters some by posting these...

su
fdisk -l
cat /boot/grub/grub.conf

[cromin]

Hello Stoat !!

Thank you for clarifying me about the "way GRUB loads things"
I did the modification assuming that GRUB loads the file which is responsible for Win 7 to boot.

So, what I did was, set the drive path as mentioned in the query.

I am not able to get how to make it work.

---------- Post added at 02:18 AM CST ---------- Previous post was at 02:10 AM CST ----------

Thanks to the Forum : I got the problem Solved

The mistake that I did the first time, my Win 7 is on Disk 1 and 3rd Partition, so I modified the menu.lst file earlier as

root (hd0, 3)

But, as give clearly in the page : http://www.howtoforge.com/working_with_the_grub_menu

I should modify it as root (hd0,2)

It was a problem due to the counting rule.

Cheers