On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 11:40 +0800, Hadders wrote:
Don Raikes wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a gateway computer which had windows xp installed on the second partition.
The first aprtition was a "recovery" image for xp.
> I had 100gb of free space on the drive and installed fc6 onto that.
>
> My grub.conf lists the windows partition, but when I try to boot to the windows
system, the pc just hangs.
>
> --- grub.conf ---
> # grub.conf generated by anaconda
> #
> # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
> # NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that
> # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
> # root (hd0,2)
> # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda3
> # initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
> #boot=/dev/sda
> default=1
> timeout=5
> splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> hiddenmenu
> title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6)
> root (hd0,2)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
> initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img
> title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen)
> root (hd0,2)
> kernel /boot/xen.gz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
> module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
> module /boot/initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen.img
> title Windows XP
> rootnoverify (hd0,1)
> chainloader +1
>
> -- end of grub.conf --
I don't remember. You need to check the grub
documentation on whether it
should be chainloader +2
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