dual boot Fedora 6 and Win XP Pro, I messed up

[golpemortal]

When rebooting and selected Windows XP

the boot process hanged here

title Window XP Proffesional with SP2
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

and won't do nothing nomore... had boot again and when with Fedora " that worls fine!!!!"

how can I fix this problem...?

[leigh123linux]

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/...30&postcount=2

[herrib]

Windows must be installed on the first active partition of the first disk to be launched. (hd0,0) refers to this partition. It failed because:

* the partition supporting Windows is not correctly identified in the /boot/grub/grub.conf (a file which comprises the parameters grub is using )
* the partition supporting Windows is no longer the first active partition
* the partition supporting Windows is hidden (the use of partition magic 8 to create partitions drives to this issue; in that case, the message should be something like: file system type unknown, partition type 0x17)

First of all, the partitioning scheme must be clarified. Use the CD #1 or DVD to boot in rescue mode.

Type the following commands:

# chroot /mnt/sysimage
# fdisk -l (and copy the output)
# vi /boot/grub/grub.conf (to exit: escape :q) -> copy the output
# vi /boot/grub/device.map -> copy the output
# shutdown -r now -> to reboot

We'll then be able to instruct you to fix the issue ...

[stoat]

Hello herrib,

Originally Posted by herrib

First of all, the partitioning scheme must be clarified. Use the CD #1 or DVD to boot in rescue mode.

I apologize for butting in. Just pointing out that golpemortal said Fedora is booting normally (I think). So linux rescue will not be necessary. It will make it a little easier for golpemortal to post the fdisk output and grub.conf if he does that work in Fedora instead of linux rescue. Butting out now.

[golpemortal]

stoat you are absolutly righ, was working fine before and now doen't work... last time what Idid was I hit suspend by mistake when all I wanted was reboot....

so I pressed suspend and I hit power off botton and then on again displayed grub manu and selected XP
screen displayed this

title Window XP Proffesional with SP2
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

and just stayed there.....

still haven resolved this issued... wanna do it with out re-installing XP back

thanks fellows

[golpemortal]

how to fdisk output and grub.conf

[golpemortal]

here is my grub.conf file

# 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 (hd1,1)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=3
timeout=30
splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.20-1.2944.fc6)
root (hd0,1)
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 (hd0,1)
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 Fedora Core (2.6.18-prep)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-prep ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-prep.img
title Window XP Professional with SP2
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

[stoat]

Hi golpemortal,

If all you did to cause this was press the suspend button and Fedora still boots normally, I doubt that there is anything to do in grub.conf. My best guess is to restore the XP boot sector with fixboot. It certainly won't hurt anything to try it.

The Windows Recovery Console command fixboot will restore the volume boot record (aka boot sector) of the XP system partition with the normal XP boot code. That is all that it will do.

1. Boot with your Windows XP CD.
2. At the blue menu, select "R".
3. At the black Recovery Console menu, select your XP installation by number.
4. Press <ENTER> for administrator password (if you never created one).
5. At the prompt, enter: fixboot
6. Agree.
7. At the prompt enter exit to reboot.
8. Remove the CD.

[golpemortal]

Originally Posted by stoat

Hi golpemortal,

If all you did to cause this was press the suspend button and Fedora still boots normally, I doubt that there is anything to do in grub.conf. My best guess is to restore the XP boot sector with fixboot. It certainly won't hurt anything to try it.

The Windows Recovery Console command fixboot will restore the volume boot record (aka boot sector) of the XP system partition with the normal XP boot code. That is all that it will do.

1. Boot with your Windows XP CD.
2. At the blue menu, select "R".
3. At the black Recovery Console menu, select your XP installation by number.
4. Press <ENTER> for administrator password (if you never created one).
5. At the prompt, enter: fixboot
6. Agree.
7. At the prompt enter exit to reboot.
8. Remove the CD.

one litle problem, my dvd-rom is not working any more... is been messed up for some time and lazy of me not replacing it... and now I need it and cant use it...sucks..

I still can mount my windows ntfs with fedora and see all my files

and one more thing, I fired up qtparted
to see my partitions and I see this
/dev/hda3 unknown 43.63gb

[stoat]

Hi golpemortal,

Okay, no DVD-ROM. Do you have a floppy drive and a floppy disk that you know was formatted by XP? If so, try an XP boot floppy as a test of my fixboot idea and the integrity of your XP installation...

1. Get a floppy that you know was formatted by XP
2. In Fedora, delete ALL files from this floppy including all hidden and system files
3. Still in Fedora, copy these three files from your XP root directory to the floppy: ntldr, ntdetect.com, boot.ini
4. Reboot from this floppy

See if XP boots.

[golpemortal]

***********FIXED*******

I remembered that last night I played with the bios and can't remember what I changed, so I set the bios to default and rebooted and the crappy Windows started booting and all is fine now.......


thank you all your help...

golpe.

[lmo]

Originally Posted by golpemortal

stoat you are absolutly righ, was working fine before and now doen't work... last time what Idid was I hit suspend by mistake when all I wanted was reboot....

so I pressed suspend and I hit power off botton and then on again displayed grub manu and selected XP
screen displayed this

title Window XP Proffesional with SP2
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

and just stayed there.....

still haven resolved this issued... wanna do it with out re-installing XP back

thanks fellows

Have you tried the 20 second rule?
Shutdown and powerdown everthing.
Wait 20 seconds.

There is a small chance that after the computer and all devices have this 20 second rest, that it will work again.