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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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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stanmuffin@hotmail.com (Jeremy Stanley) wrote in message news:<27f752b2.0402201619.6c7ea
b51@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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