Having problem starting FC4

[Scruffy1983]

Hi all, this 1 should be a really dumb question as I am a total newbie

Got FC4 installed in my extended partition (used the automatic partition at FC4 installation to partition free spaces in the extended partion and didn't make any changes)

When i check the partition structure in WinGrub:

/boot is in partition (hd0,5) ~ 100MB
FC4 is in partition (hd0,6) ~ the total size of the free space i had taken using FC4 partition option

can't seem to find the swap partition which is supposed to be 512MB in size...

I had install the wingrub line in the boot.ini of xp and then restarted the computer

Chosen the new option i had just made (Fedora Core FC4)

Then a Grub> prompt poped up without linux running

So i typed in the following lines at the Grub> prompt

kernel (hd0,5)/vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
initrd (hd0,5)/initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img
boot

And linux started to load, until...

It comes to a point that "2 active LogVol found"
then mounting device
then error 6 mounting ext3

and then a few lines later
it says linux is in panic and attempts to kill init

then a few more lines later the system just got frozen...

Have I done something wrong to the partition settings while i was doing the installation?

btw, i learned using wingrub from this web site http://shamsweb.50webs.com/page3.html#dualx
can some1 please verifiy if the method mentioned in this site is right?

[jamdusr]

I don't know anything about wingrub-interesting that it exists though.
I have experiance with grub and menu.1st editing and the kernel line in your post
may need to include root=/dev/hda6 ro vga=791 I think the 'ro' is important so try that.
Many distros grubs include the line 'savedefault' (without the quotes)above/before the final boot line.
Hope that helps-and good luck.
P.S. If you still can't boot into fedora you could try using the 1st install cd to try and boot your system.