[SOLVED] Installing Windows 7 and RHEL5 Facing problem

[Ashish Sood]

Hi All

I recently install windows 7 first and then RHEL 5, now i can only boot into my linux machine, upon installing the RHEL5 i choose windows7 as a default os, but i cant boot my windows 7 anymore after rhel5 installation, below is the output of my default grub.conf file and output of fdisk command. grub is installed in /dev/sdb,
Please help me out.


[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 (hd1,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00_root/LogVol00_root
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sdb
default=1
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (2.6.18-128.el5xen)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /xen.gz-2.6.18-128.el5
module /vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.el5xen ro root=/dev/VolGroup00_root/LogVol00_root rhgb quiet
module /initrd-2.6.18-128.el5xen.img
title Other
rootnoverify (hd1,4)
chainloader +1

[fdisk -l]

Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 4476 77825 589183875 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 4998 9567 36700160 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 9567 12753 25599546 8e Linux LVM
/dev/sda7 12754 14665 15358108+ 8e Linux LVM
/dev/sda8 14666 15187 4192933+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
224 heads, 19 sectors/track, 459004 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4256 * 512 = 2179072 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 49 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 49 49276 104755200 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb3 49276 98551 104857600 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb4 98551 172464 157286400 7 HPFS/NTFS

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[Dutchy]

Your Windows install is on the second disk isn't it and you also have a ntfs data partition on the first disk?
If that is correct then the Windows entry points to the data partition (although I am no grub expert).
I believe the second entry needs to be: hd2,0

You could also manually select the second disk from the bios but that would be a hassle to do every time.

[Ashish Sood]

Thanks for your valuable reply


I changed to (hd0,0), and now its working for me