FC4 installaion bogged up WINXP

[Aaron Konstam]

On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 00:51 +0530, Deboo ^ wrote:
> Can't copy/paste it right now but it's a simple debian's default grub having
> a debian section containing
> root (hd0,4)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-4 root=/dev/hda5
> initrd /initrd-2.6.18-4
> 
> And a windows section:
> root (hd0,1)
> savedefault
> chainloader +1
> 
> That's all. I remember it since I tried many times to boot.
> 
> I tried using fixboot using winxp ercovery console but didn't help. I
> tried the install-mbr command which is similar to fdisk /mbr but that
> didn't work as well. hal.dll still is reported to be missing by XP.
> Any help appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> Deboo
That is interesting since the comparable grub.conf file in FC4 looks
like this:
title Fedora Core (2.6.15-1.1833_FC4)
        root (hd0,2)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4 ro root=/dev/hda5
        initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4.img
title Other
        rootnoverify (hd0,0)
        chainloader +1

These don't look compatible to me in the Windows portion but I have
never looked at a debian grub.conf.
> 
> On 5/14/07, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 13:58 +0530, Deboo ^ wrote:
> > > I reinstalled FC4 thinking to do a clean text based install and to try
> > > to solve yum problem and report anything here.
> > >
> > > I already have debian installed with WinXP as dual boot. I installed
> > > fedora but did not let it install grub when asked. When I got the
> > > normal grub menu after install, I manually put in the parameters for
> > > root, kernel and initrd to boot in to FC4 and it booted fine.
> > >
> > > Booting debian also works fine but now when booting XP, it gives an
> > > error saying HAL.dll is corrupted and to resinstall the OS. Now what
> > > did fedora change to make this happen? Is there a solution to this? I
> > > just had reinstalled XP a few days ago and don't want to go in to
> > > reinstalling everything again.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Deboo
> > What does your grub.conf look like?
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