Win XP pro and fedora 6 on 2 Hard drives

slowhands36 · #1 24th April 2007, 05:37 PM

Ok ill try to explain this to see if anyone understands how to make it work

I have 2 hard drives in my pc 1st drive is a 80 gig on IDE as slave with my cd/dvd burner
2nd drive is a 160 gig SATA drive .Now i have fedore on the 1st drive and win xp pro on the SATA drive
I have the BIOS set to boot from the 1st drive in BIOS,which is the drive with fedora on it
the problem is i cant get it to boot into windows from the menu in fedora,it lists Windows XP but when i try to boot to it it gives a black screen that says rootnoverify (hd1,0)
Chainloader +1
By the way i added windows XP to the conf file to make it say windows XP in the list in fedora when it boots up

I changed the grub conf file to this
title windows xp
map (hd0) (hd10
map(hd1) (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
Chainloader +1
Makeactive

This is what the docementation says to do,When i do this it say this error
ERROR 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format

I had it setup befor on the 80 gig ide drive with win xp home and fedora core 6 on same drive and all was fine but i wanted to have another drive to have 1 for windows and 1 for fedora.
I cannot run 2 IDE drives cause my board only has a slot for a IDE floppy and a Ide plug in for A master and a slave which would be The 80 gig and the cd/dvd burner.
thats why i got a sata drive and installed it.

is there any way to make it boot into windows from the SATA drive listed as the 2nd drive.
I have tryed many diffrent ways which none will work.

Right now my drives are listed like this when i installed fedora on it:

hd0 /dev/hdb IDE drive the 80 gig
hd1/dev/sda SATA drive which has windows xp pro on it

any help with this would be greatly appreciated

Seve · #2 24th April 2007, 05:46 PM

Hello:
If I have read your post correctly? You have windows installed on the second drive ?
Windows for some reason always wants to be on the first drive ??
Assuming that your Fedora grub line(s) contain
root (hd0,0) ?
Try amending you grub.conf file
as follows

PHP Code:


			
title Windows xp

    root (hd1,0)

    chainloader +1

    map (hd0) (hd1)

    map (hd1) (hd0)

    makeactive

And leave at least one blank line / carriage return after the last line [makeactive].

Save you changes and reboot and see how it goes.

Seve

slowhands36 · #3 24th April 2007, 06:02 PM

no still got same error did same thing as before

it didnt have a root line in it at all,but i added it like you said

nothing · #4 24th April 2007, 06:20 PM

i have 2 sata drive and my grub config look like this and it working perfectly
my hd0 is Fedora
my hd1 is WinXP wiht 2 partition

default=0
timeout=60
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.20-1.2944.fc6)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.20-1.2933.fc6)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2933.fc6 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.20-1.2933.fc6.img
title Windows XP
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1

Seve · #5 24th April 2007, 06:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slowhands36

no still got same error did same thing as before

it didnt have a root line in it at all,but i added it like you said

Hello:
Can you post the output of
cat /boot/grub/grub.conf
and
cat /boot/grub/device.map
and
fdisk -l

Seve

slowhands36 · #6 24th April 2007, 06:27 PM

sry iam new to linux what the meaning of cat,is that a command or something to run to get the results or you mean what my grub.conf file lookis like

Seve · #7 24th April 2007, 06:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slowhands36

sry iam new to linux what the meaning of cat,is that a command or something to run to get the results or you mean what my grub.conf file lookis like

Hello:
Open a terminal and log in as root using
su -
yourpassword
then either type it out or use copy and paste
and you should be good to go.

Seve

slowhands36 · #8 24th April 2007, 06:33 PM

#boot=/dev/hdb
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.20-1.2944.fc6)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img
title Windows XP
root(hd1,0)
chainloader +1
map(hd0) (hd1)
map(hd1) (hd0)
Makeactive

(hd0) /dev/hdb
(hd1) /dev/sda

Seve · #9 24th April 2007, 06:54 PM

Hello:
Thanks.

First off, everything in Fedora and Linux is case sensitive.
It is important to pay attention to spaces and the case of any text you enter. It is all interpreted differently
To correct your /boot/grub/grub.conf entry for windows please do the following:
Open a terminal and log in as as root using
su - <------ the dash is important
yourpassword
then type or copy and paste
gedit /boot/grub/grub.conf
then replace the following entry

Quote:

title Windows XP
root(hd1,0)
chainloader +1
map(hd0) (hd1)
map(hd1) (hd0)
Makeactive

with

PHP Code:


			
 title Windows xp

    root (hd1,0)

    chainloader +1

    map (hd0) (hd1)

    map (hd1) (hd0)

    makeactive

use the copy and paste function to make sure you do not miss any spaces and maintain the proper case etc.

Also, leave at least one blank line between
your last entry for Fedora and "title Windows xp"
and, leave at least one blank line or carriage/return after the last line in the entry for Windows [makeactive]

Save your work, exit and reboot and give it a whirl again.

Seve

slowhands36 · #10 24th April 2007, 07:04 PM

ok man you ROCK that fixed it,boots up when i choose windows XP but it seems my windows is slower now is that because its booting from 2nd drive or does that have anyhting to do with it.

Iam learning slow but sure.Thnx for your guys help.
i must say that fedora rocks and iam not very good with it yet.but i will learn it Thnx again

Seve · #11 24th April 2007, 08:18 PM

Hello:
Glad you got it sorted out.

I'm not sure that windows booting from the second drive has much to do with it appearing to be slow.
Run windows for a while and then defrag the drive and reboot and see if that helps.

Seve

slowhands36 · #12 24th April 2007, 08:22 PM

ok thnx maybe it was just recovering from something seems to be fine now.I always keep drives defraged so that wasnt the problem,just anohter temporary deal

Thnx again for your help..

JN4OldSchool · #13 24th April 2007, 08:25 PM

well, there's your problem! Your trying to run Windows on that thing!

Seve · #14 24th April 2007, 08:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JN4OldSchool

well, there's your problem! Your trying to run Windows on that thing!

Hello JN4:
Me thinks you hit the nail on the head

Seve

slowhands36 · #15 24th April 2007, 08:39 PM

lol that may be very true and as soon as linux gets it fixed so i can play world of warcraft on it i promise ill throw windows out the window..I tryed cedega and wine they dont do so good lol but with 4 gigs ram it should run anything pretty decent lol.thnx again guys for your help