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FC1 b0rked XP Pro - Can't boot Windows anymore
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| Jeremy Stanley 2004-02-20, 11:34 am |
| I have an HP Pavilion a362n (P4 3.0, 160GB HD, 1GB RAM) system. When
I got it, I wiped out the pre-installed XP Home and recovery
partitions, and installed XP Pro in a single 130GB NTFS partition,
leaving 30GB available for Linux.
Weeks later, I got around to installing Fedora Core 1. Now XP won't
boot anymore. I see the following:
Booting 'DOS'
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
.... and that's it. It hangs there. No boot.
Here's everything I fruitlessly tried already:
- Add "makeactive" to grub.conf.
- Hide all Linux partitions in grub.conf.
- Boot to Windows recovery console and run "fixboot" and "fixmbr".
The former has no effect; the latter kills Grub leaves me unable to
boot anything (until I boot linux rescue and reinstall Grub).
- Install LILO in place of Grub. Hangs the same way.
- Do XP repair install. Files copied okay, but when the system
finished copying and did a reboot, it hung on boot yet again.
Here's the output of fdisk. hda2 was created by Windows, for what
that's worth. hda8 is a small FAT partition I intend to use to
shuttle data back and forth between OSes, created with mkfs.
Disk /dev/hda: 163.9 GB, 163928604672 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19929 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 16572 133114558+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 16573 19930 26963685 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hda5 16573 16704 1048918+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda6 16704 17748 8388733+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 17748 19706 15728548+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 19707 19928 1783183+ 4 FAT16 <32M
---
Here's 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 (hd0,6)
# kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda7
# initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,6)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp)
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp ro root=LABEL=/
hdc=ide-scsi
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp.img
title Fedora Core-up (2.4.22-1.2115.nptl)
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=LABEL=/
hdc=ide-scsi
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img
title DOS
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
---
WTF did FC1 _do_ to my system?
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| William Winkler 2004-02-21, 10:34 am |
| You need to run fdisk and mark the XP partition bootable.
"Jeremy Stanley" <stanmuffin@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:27f752b2.0402201619.6c7eab51@posting.google.com...
> I have an HP Pavilion a362n (P4 3.0, 160GB HD, 1GB RAM) system. When
> I got it, I wiped out the pre-installed XP Home and recovery
> partitions, and installed XP Pro in a single 130GB NTFS partition,
> leaving 30GB available for Linux.
>
> Weeks later, I got around to installing Fedora Core 1. Now XP won't
> boot anymore. I see the following:
>
> Booting 'DOS'
>
> rootnoverify (hd0,0)
> chainloader +1
>
> ... and that's it. It hangs there. No boot.
>
> Here's everything I fruitlessly tried already:
> - Add "makeactive" to grub.conf.
> - Hide all Linux partitions in grub.conf.
> - Boot to Windows recovery console and run "fixboot" and "fixmbr".
> The former has no effect; the latter kills Grub leaves me unable to
> boot anything (until I boot linux rescue and reinstall Grub).
> - Install LILO in place of Grub. Hangs the same way.
> - Do XP repair install. Files copied okay, but when the system
> finished copying and did a reboot, it hung on boot yet again.
>
>
> Here's the output of fdisk. hda2 was created by Windows, for what
> that's worth. hda8 is a small FAT partition I intend to use to
> shuttle data back and forth between OSes, created with mkfs.
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 163.9 GB, 163928604672 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19929 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 16572 133114558+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda2 16573 19930 26963685 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
> Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> /dev/hda5 16573 16704 1048918+ 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hda6 16704 17748 8388733+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda7 17748 19706 15728548+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda8 19707 19928 1783183+ 4 FAT16 <32M
>
> ---
>
> Here's 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 (hd0,6)
> # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda7
> # initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
> #boot=/dev/hda
> default=0
> timeout=10
> splashimage=(hd0,6)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp)
> root (hd0,6)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp ro root=LABEL=/
> hdc=ide-scsi
> initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp.img
> title Fedora Core-up (2.4.22-1.2115.nptl)
> root (hd0,6)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=LABEL=/
> hdc=ide-scsi
> initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img
> title DOS
> rootnoverify (hd0,0)
> chainloader +1
>
>
> ---
>
> WTF did FC1 _do_ to my system?
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| P Gentry 2004-02-23, 11:34 am |
| stanmuffin@hotmail.com (Jeremy Stanley) wrote in message news:<27f752b2.0402201619.6c7eab51@posting.google.com>...
> I have an HP Pavilion a362n (P4 3.0, 160GB HD, 1GB RAM) system. When
> I got it, I wiped out the pre-installed XP Home and recovery
> partitions, and installed XP Pro in a single 130GB NTFS partition,
> leaving 30GB available for Linux.
>
> Weeks later, I got around to installing Fedora Core 1. Now XP won't
> boot anymore. I see the following:
>
> Booting 'DOS'
>
> rootnoverify (hd0,0)
> chainloader +1
>
> ... and that's it. It hangs there. No boot.
>
> Here's everything I fruitlessly tried already:
> - Add "makeactive" to grub.conf.
> - Hide all Linux partitions in grub.conf.
> - Boot to Windows recovery console and run "fixboot" and "fixmbr".
> The former has no effect; the latter kills Grub leaves me unable to
> boot anything (until I boot linux rescue and reinstall Grub).
> - Install LILO in place of Grub. Hangs the same way.
> - Do XP repair install. Files copied okay, but when the system
> finished copying and did a reboot, it hung on boot yet again.
>
>
> Here's the output of fdisk. hda2 was created by Windows, for what
> that's worth. hda8 is a small FAT partition I intend to use to
> shuttle data back and forth between OSes, created with mkfs.
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 163.9 GB, 163928604672 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19929 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 16572 133114558+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda2 16573 19930 26963685 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
> Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> /dev/hda5 16573 16704 1048918+ 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hda6 16704 17748 8388733+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda7 17748 19706 15728548+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda8 19707 19928 1783183+ 4 FAT16 <32M
>
> ---
>
> Here's 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 (hd0,6)
> # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda7
> # initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
> #boot=/dev/hda
> default=0
> timeout=10
> splashimage=(hd0,6)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp)
> root (hd0,6)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp ro root=LABEL=/
> hdc=ide-scsi
> initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp.img
> title Fedora Core-up (2.4.22-1.2115.nptl)
> root (hd0,6)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=LABEL=/
> hdc=ide-scsi
> initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img
> title DOS
> rootnoverify (hd0,0)
> chainloader +1
> ---
>
> WTF did FC1 _do_ to my system?
Good question.
For other parts of this saga see:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...0hotmail.com%2B
I posted some "general" stuff to your last post on linux.redhat you
may want to look at. A bunch of urls as I was trying to chase this
down.
For those that stumble on this see above posted urls and OP's travails
see:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...0hotmail.com%2B
better luck next time,
prg
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