Re: Unable to boot on WinXP after Fedora Core 2 test3 install

["shrek-m gmx de" <shrek-m gmx de>]

Marco Bicca wrote:

> At 19:21 05-15-2004 +0200, you wrote:
>
> Ok .. here is my setup:
>
> 2 120GB Harddrives on a Promise Controller as HDE and HDG
>
> I have Fedora on HDE and WinXP on HDG
>
> If I do not hide the partitions under HDE I couldn't boot to WinXP 
> (Don't know why)


windows set the priority in a  physical/filesystem  mixture.
afair:
the first hd, first primary partition, first ntfs partition is C:
the second hd, first primary partition, first ntfs partition is D:
i can not remeber how windows is setting the priority with 
fat-vfat-partitions and scsi/ide mixture


could it be that win-xp is seeing now the partitions created by anaconda,
as the result the  boot.ini  is misconfigured
and XP is trying to boot from the wrong disk/partition eg.  hde1  
instead  hdg1 ?


can you show us your  c:\boot.ini ?
thanks

afair:
multi(0) = 1. controller
disk(0)  = 1. ide-hd
rdisk(0) = 1. scsi-hd
partition(1) = 1. partition



> The partition that I have on HDG is NTFS, after I did that change it's 
> working beautifully ...
>
> I don't have any extended partitions on any hard drive all partitions 
> are primary I have two partitions on HDE


unhide(hd0,0)(hd0,1) = XP is unbootable
   because XP can see this disk/partitions and the  boot.ini  is fault ?
hide  = XP is bootable
   because  the boot.ini  is ok

> and one partition on HDG.

which should be in your  boot.ini  surely the first hd, first 
primary-bootable-ntfs-partition

evtl. multi(1) ?
----
c:\boot.ini
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP 
Professional" /fastdetect
----


> HDE
> / - ext3 - primary
> swap - primary
> HDG
> ntfs - primary
>
> Let me know if you need anything else :)
> Thanks,
>
> > Marco Bicca wrote:
> >
> > > I have an installation with Windows XP and Fedora Core 2 Test 3 and 
> > > my Windows option inside grub looks like:
> > >
> > > rootnoverify (hd1,0)
> > > unhide (hd1,0)
> > > hide (hd0,0)
> > > hide (hd0,1)
> > > makeactive
> > > chainloader 1+
> >
> >
> >
> > what would happen if you unhide (hd0,0) (hd0,1)
> > can you boot into xp ?
> >
> > do you have an extented partition on hda or 2 primaries ?
> > do you have only 1 primary on hdb for xp ?
> >
> >
> > my  w2k-prof  boot.ini  under  vmware  on  sda1
> > ----
> > c:\boot.ini
> > [boot loader]
> > timeout=30
> > default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
> > [operating systems]
> > multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 
> > Professional" /fastdetect
> > ----


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shrek-m