Hi to all,
I have Fedora8 with Windows Xp installed as dual boot. Initially i installed
XP on secondary partition in order to install fedora as my primary
partition. The sudo fdisk -l command returned this
[root@localhost ~]# sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x2e0f2e0f
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 26 208813+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 2583 9729 57408277+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda3 * 27 2582 20531070 8e Linux LVM
/dev/sda5 2583 5164 20739883+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 5165 9728 36660298+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Disk /dev/sdb: 4020 MB, 4020240384 bytes
124 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1021 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 7688 * 512 = 3936256 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000ba68a
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
Disk /dev/dm-0: 19.0 GB, 19092471808 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/dm-1: 1879 MB, 1879048192 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 228 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x30307800
Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Now I can enter into Fedora but while booting XP it shows error message at
boot screen as
booting Windows XP
root (hd0,4)
Filesystem type unknown Partition type 0x7
makeactive
savedefault
chainloader +1
Error12: Invalid device requested
press any key to continue...
My grub.conf file contains this
# 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 (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=2
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.21-2950.fc8xen)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /xen.gz-2.6.21-2950.fc8
module /vmlinuz-2.6.21-2950.fc8xen ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb
quiet
module /initrd-2.6.21-2950.fc8xen.img
title Fedora-base (2.6.23.1-42.fc8)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb
quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.img
title Windows XP Professional
root (hd0,4)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1
I have read in most forums about this problem and tried every possible
solution and the changes i see is various types of error messages but cant
find a solution to boot windows.
I know that this is a community for Open Source so i apologise but as i am a
newbie to FOSS and also a student so i am little dependent on Windows.
So please Luggies help me to sort this problem as if i had to reinstall OS
then first i need to remove fedora and then reinstall windows and again had
to install fedora which takes much longer time.
Thanks in advance.
