I have two disks, one contains Fedora 12 and the other contains Windows XP. Both boot and run individually in the same computer (by swapping cables). I am trying to set up a dual boot using GRUB but I'm having some problems. Here is my grub.conf file:
# 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/mapper/vg_shorty-lv_root # initrd /initrd-[generic-]version.img # boot=/dev/sda default=2 timeout=15 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz # hiddenmenu title Fedora (2.6.32.16-141.fc12.i686.PAE) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32.16-141.fc12.i686.PAE ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_shorty-lv_root LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet initrd /initramfs-2.6.32.16-141.fc12.i686.PAE.img title Fedora (2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686.PAE) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686.PAE ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_shorty-lv_root LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet initrd /initramfs-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686.PAE.img title Windows XP root (hd1,2) makeactive chainloader +1 Here's the fdisk output: [r...@shorty droark]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500106780160 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0001c9cc Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 26 204799+ 83 Linux Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda2 26 60802 488179712 8e Linux LVM Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500106780160 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x076d076c Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 26 204799+ 83 Linux Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sdb2 * 26 60802 488179650 7 HPFS/NTFS Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. Disk /dev/dm-0: 494.3 GB, 494307115008 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60096 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: 5586 MB, 5586812928 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 679 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/sdc: 1812.1 GB, 1812124903424 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 220311 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x5044b1a4 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 * 1 121601 976760001 7 HPFS/NTFS [r...@shorty droark]# Eventually I have tried every combination for the disk/partition on the NTFS disk. While the "Windows XP" option always appears in the GRUB options, the option fails each time with something like "disk not found". When that happens, I can still select the Fedora kernel and away we happily go. Sorry for the bother and thanks for anything. Dick
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