Unable to boot Fedora v6 after Windows install

[kwits]

Good Day,

I multiboot Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP on my laptop with Fedora v6. However, I have lost the ability to boot Fedora using my Grub boot loader since reinstalling Windows. Does anyone on this forum have experience with this scenario?

Regards,
Keith

[glennzo]

You need to re-install grub. Boot with your Fedora DVD or CD #1 and type linux rescue at the command prompt. Choose a language and keyboard type. You don't need to start the network interfaces. Choose continue. The rescue system searches for existing Fedora Core installations. It presents you with a list of potential boot partitions. Select the one that Fedora is installed to and press next. You are now dropped at the command line which looks like this:

sh-3.1#

Type ‘chroot /mnt/sysimage’ at the command prompt and press enter.
Now type ‘grub-install /dev/hda’.

Rescue tries to install grub. The report on the screen should look like this:
Installation finished. No error reported.
This is the contents of the device map /boot/grub/device.map.
Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect, fix it and re-run the script ‘grub-install’.
# this device map was generated by anaconda
(hd0) /dev/hda

sh-3.1#

Type ‘exit’ twice to reboot your system.

You may need to replace /dev/hda with /dev/sda in certain instances.

[sideways]

Once fixed and rebooted into fedora add this to /boot/grub/grub.conf to enable you to boot into windows

title Windows Xp
      rootnoverify (hd0, 0)
      chainloader +1

and remove the line 'hiddenmenu' else you won't see the menu unless you hit a key.

(may need to use (hd1, 0) , (hd0, 2) etc, depending which disk/partition windows was installed on)

[Delphi]

Also, if you get an error message when using the "grub-install /dev/hda"-command, try to append "--recheck" to the end of it, so that it looks like this
$ grub-install /dev/hda --recheck

This fixed the error I got the last time I reinstalled grub, about /dev/hdb not having a valid BIOS drive letter, or something like that.

- Delphi